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English: A typical display case at the museum. Clockwise from top right: the skeleton of Able, a rhesus macaque who was among the first primates ever to be sent to space; a box containing the tumor that killed Ulysses S. Grant, sectioned; a hand-cranked surgical saw used for cutting through bone in amputations, etc; a gilded skull, the first item in the museum's catalogue—original owner unknown.
Visible storage in the porcelain galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum. Motorcycle stack display at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum.. Visible storage is a method of maximising public access to museum and art collections that would otherwise be hidden from public view.
A display case (also called a showcase, display cabinet, shadow box, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing. A display case may appear in an exhibition, museum, retail store, restaurant, or house. Often, labels are ...
In museums, the collection of cultural property or material is normally catalogued in a collection catalog (or collections catalog). Traditionally this was done using a card index , but nowadays it is normally implemented using a computerized database (known as a collection database ) and may even be made available online.
Exhibition catalogues of Museum Schnütgen, Cologne. There are two types of exhibition catalogue (or exhibition catalog): a printed list of exhibits at an art exhibition; [1] and a directory of exhibitors at a trade fair or business-to-business event. [citation needed]
Regularly updated online catalog. The only electronic database of museum collections in the Russian Federation. Unites all state museums of the Russian Federation. The database contains basic information about each museum object and each museum collection included in the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation. [3] [4]
Museum Store Company is an online retailer headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is an American company that sells reproductions of museum objects . The company was established as an online retailer in 1997.
Displaying an object improperly can cause damage either physical or chemically from the environment. One of the most common causes for damage is a ceramic piece falling over or off a shelf. To prevent this issue, many historic houses will line storage and display shelves with a thin layer of ethafoam (polyethylene foam) or bubble wrap. [2]: p.63