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The Preparator's Handbook: A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects

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The Preparator’s Handbook :A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training.



This handbook explores, explains, and illustrates the basics for the preparation and installation professionals.

- practical, step-by-step guides that outline museum-standard procedures for most types of collection objects, including works on paper, archival volumes, and historic artifacts.

- templates and guides for presentation, preservation, and collection storage

- illustrated inventories of standard and specialized tools, materials and hardware

- the basics of lighting, audio, and video in installations.

- unique case-studies from working professionals for a wide-range of objects and installations including examples from the Field Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

- Over 50 illustrations and photographs that accompany the written text.





This practical book is the first of its a guide for novice or amateur collection and gallery professionals as well as an academic textbook for museum studies and fine art students.

188 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2022

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