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Hello Joy and welcome to the exciting profession of art handling.

Ashley just about tells it all in his response and one thing I would like to reiterate is use the time you spend with...

Cheryl,

When shipping by common carrier there is no such thing as overkill. In all my years in this business, I've found that if something can be damaged, it will be. All of your precautions sound...

Ashley,

As an old Prep with back problems, this table/lift is pretty sweet. Do you know where this lift can be purchased? and, who is using this table/lift? I'd like to call and talk to them about...

Todd,

That can be a problem. Here at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston we have come up with a way to reinforce a plaster or sheetrock wall. We use a square or rectangle of either 1/4 plywood or...

Todd,

There's no such thing as a "static rotation gallery" Build the model for the entire museum. You'll be glad you did.

Richard

You see, this is the kind of creativity I'm looking for. Not a bad idea though. Part of the problem I have is that I don't have a shop for building crates, or furniture out of crates. Any crates I...

Ashley,

Thanks for the information. That's a good idea, having an inner container, but as you know, that won't always work. I've got to come up with a compelling argument in favor of properly...

Thanks again. More useful information. I'll look into both of your suggestions

Paul,

Thanks for the information. Last December we busted up enough crates to fill two forty yard dumpsters. That was the third time last year we had a cratesmash and the fourth and fifth 40-yard...

Thanks for the information. We currently have about 3,000 SF of off-site storage at one of the local storage companies, (North American). The problem with this situation is we have so many crates...

I have a big problem with what to do with old art shipping crates and was hoping to get some ideas what others are doing about disposing of them. We have a very active loan program here at the MFAH...