Hi - we manufacture free standing portable gallery/museum walls. We work with a lot of historical museums since they're often in a historical building or former historical home. As far as costs go, it's true portable walls do cost a little more to build than permanent construction, but if you consider tear-out costs they'll save you money literally the first time you move them. You can screw into them, drive nails into them, hang art (even heavier work), light shelving, and patch/repaint them with house paint - so the can be used very much like real walls.
I'm not sure about other exhibit manufacturers, but one way we help customers on smaller budgets save, is to take advantage of "scratch and dent" sales. We sell damaged & repaired walls, or walls that don't pass our internal QC for much less. Several museums we've worked with have found that's a helpful way to save money.
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Kathy Kyle
Sales, Pareti Mobile Walls
Belle Plaine, Iowa
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-05-2021 10:52 AM
From: Anne Ocone
Subject: Temporary panel display system: Historic House
Greetings,
I am looking for recommendations for a free-standing display system to be used for temporary, small exhibits at a historic house. ProPanels is the option I have seen online.
I am hoping to find fa system for 2 to 4 panels that would be easy to store and set-up, allow flexibility in exhibiting paintings and other framed artworks, and could work in a historic house setting. Cost, unsurprisingly, is a consideration too! Please reply if you have any experience or suggestions. Thank you!
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Anne Ocone
Museum Coordinator
The Percy Grainger House
7 Cromwell Place
White Plains, NY 10601
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