| 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
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2, 2003 Newsletter
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