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Re: Before I Hurt the Architects...



Before you knock "custom-designed" cases, remember what "custom-designed"
means.  It means that you can specify the design of the case.  It also
means that you have a lot of homework to do to get cases that will "work"
for you, and that are "safe" for your exhibited materials, but the end
result can be very pleasing.  You MAY want to find "custom exhibit case
designers" to help you plan what is needed.  And you may also -- quite
probably also -- not want the architect to design the cases.  Designing a
building for people is not the same as designing an exhibit case for often
delicate materials.  Only you know what sorts of items you will be
exhibiting and the sizes and locking arrangements and lighting you will
need.  And the type of audience (which will have something to say about
the height of the cases, whether they will be table cases or wall cases,
and how deep they are, and  and and and .....


Just because a case is metal, and is "off the shelf" doesn't make it a
great case.

Ok.  I have said my bit.

Mary Ellen Goddard

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