With the museum’s grand opening just days away, conservators, curators, registrars, and ex
With the museum’s grand opening just days away, conservators, curators, registrars, and exhibition preparators are putting the finishing touches on three inaugural exhibitions. Peek behind the scenes to see how staff are mounting the largest exhibition in The Textile Museum’s history—from planning and conservation through installation. From top to bottom:Pint-sized prototypes of the galleries are critical to the curators’ planning process.From left to right: Exhibition Production Assistant Preparator Scott Brouard, Exhibition Production ManagerDoug Anderson, Exhibition Coordinator Monika Hirschbichler,Chief Conservator Esther Méthé, Associate Conservator Maria Fusco, and Exhibition Production Technician Frank Petty.Conservator Lisa Anderson inspects a carpet that will be on display. Carpet (detail), Turkey, Uşak, 18th century. The Textile MuseumR34.22.1. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1925. Members of the exhibition production team mount the carpet on a custom-cut board covered with exhibition fabric, which now hangs on a specially constructed frame in the third-floor gallery. -- source link
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