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Re: Professional couriers for archival items?



Your best bet for finding a specialty shipper or courier would be to contact
the registrar at a museum in your area--they'll definitely know who's around
and who's good. FYI--most art museums not only use fine arts shippers, but
send a staff member along to supervise. These 'couriers' accompany the art
works every step of the way--from watching the truck get loaded at home, the
crate get loaded on and off the plane, moved to the borrowers' museum,
removed from the crate, etc. They often do conservation condition reports
once the move is complete (and then again after the return home). The
courier can be a registrar, curator, or conservator--the travel's a perq,
but the responsibility can be wearing!

Deborah Wythe
Brooklyn Museum of Art

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