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The Only Constant in Life is Change!
Posted February 8, 2012
Kelly Wilkerson, Curator of Collections
This week, staff members from the Royal Armouries in Leeds, England are visiting the Frazier to help finish the transition to our new third floor layout. As many of our Museum regulars already know, we are expanding the third floor temporary gallery so that the Frazier can host even bigger and even better exhibitions. First, we moved the tournament ring to the first floor and now we are rearranging the Royal Armouries exhibition to occupy the tournament ring’s old third floor location.
Royal Armouries staff carefully removing artifacts from exhibition before the big case move begins!
Ten cases from the Armouries exhibition are being moved to new homes and over 100 objects had to be de-installed for the transition.
Such a big move requires a case specialist from Belgium, two Armouries staff members from England and a Frazier team of six staff members… not to mention all the staff, architects and construction workers who have helped with the project!
Frazier staff moving the Zulu case to its new location. The cases weigh over a ton with the large glass doors still attached. The doors are carefully taken off with large, industrial size suction cups that allow staff to grip the glass. The cases are then rigged up to special moving dollies, strapped into place and rolled to their new home.
Nyssa Midwaters (an Armouries conservator) and Giles Storey (an exhibition technician) are using this opportunity to inspect the condition of the Armouries’ objects. Nyssa and Giles are meticulously cleaning the artifacts and inspecting the mounts to ensure that all the artifacts are still properly supported. There are a couple of mounts that Giles may re-fabricate to provide even better support to fragile items. We’ll post pictures of his work if he builds new mounts!
Giles inspecting a sword in the Collections Storage area.
Nyssa cleaning a rifle from the Armouries collection.
Keep checking the blog over the next two weeks for more updates on the work being done at the Frazier by the Royal Armouries staff. Later this week we will be blogging about how we moved an eighteen-foot pike through the Frazier!
