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  ICEFAT NEWS EDITION NO. 4 — 2004 HEADLINES  

 


Welcome to the last edition of the ICEFAT NEWS for 2004. We hope that you find the following articles interesting and helpful. Click on one of the headlines below for the entire article.

ART TO HAWAII BY SEA CONTAINER
To the majority of Museum staff airfreight is the method of choice for moving an exhibition and the idea of using sea freight is rarely considered. One museum successfully using sea containers to ship art works is the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Hawaii.

IN WHICH WAY SHOULD ART FLY?
The National Gallery, London have conducted a series of tests on the effects of flight direction on Paintings.

FINE ART TRANSPORTS IN ITALY
In our series of articles regarding fine art transports in different countries, we have now reached Italy. You may have heard , things are rather complicated in Italy and at times every Italian region applies its own rules. We hope this article will answer some of your questions.

NEW MEMBERS
ICEFAT welcomes new members Atelier 4 Inc (USA), Winchester Fine Art Services Inc.(USA), Artex Art Services (Austria) and Welti-Furrer Fine Art GmbH Berlin (Germany).

NO SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENCE
Stockholm's Royal Armoury is a museum full of complications when it comes to transportation. Virtually every object in it needs its own specially built crates. And there is a heavy program of loans to both Swedish and international museums.

NEW IDEAS
Comments from the ICEFAT Chairperson

ICEFAT IN BARCELONA
In his opening speech Chairman Mark Starling introduces success as the keyword for this Convention, referring to the record-number of attendees among them representatives of the nine companies that have recently joined ICEFAT.

Past editions:
Newsletter 1, 2003
Newsletter 2, 2003
Newsletter 3, 2003
Newsletter 4, 2004
Newsletter 5, 2004

 

 


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