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Hello all,

I had a quick question about museum exhibit walls, specifically curved walls.

We have a big curved wall that our temporary exhibits go in and without nailing a hook in every time we have a wall exhibit, we've decided to use a painters tape and Velcro system to save our walls and to save the integrity of the foam board exhibits.

This is an acceptable procedure for hanging smaller boards, but our problem occurs when larger boards are put up. The curve is too great for the board to lay flat against the wall causing them to fall frequently throughout the day!

Does anyone use any other method for hanging foam board exhibits on curved walls?
OR
Are there any ideas of improving our current method?

Thanks!

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James Scott
Education Assistant
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​you might try to make slices in the back of the foam board that allows it to help fit the curve of the wall.  You'll have to play around with how many slices, where to locate them, and how deep to make them but we've done that here with some degree of success.

Good luck


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Katherine Owens
Curator of Collections
Missouri State Museum
Jefferson City, MO
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-31-2017 03:53 PM
From: James Scott
Subject: Museum Exhibit Walls

Hello all,

I had a quick question about museum exhibit walls, specifically curved walls.

We have a big curved wall that our temporary exhibits go in and without nailing a hook in every time we have a wall exhibit, we've decided to use a painters tape and Velcro system to save our walls and to save the integrity of the foam board exhibits.

This is an acceptable procedure for hanging smaller boards, but our problem occurs when larger boards are put up. The curve is too great for the board to lay flat against the wall causing them to fall frequently throughout the day!

Does anyone use any other method for hanging foam board exhibits on curved walls?
OR
Are there any ideas of improving our current method?

Thanks!

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James Scott
Education Assistant
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You could use a hanging system, to have panels hang from the ceiling following the flow of the walls but hanging in front of them. For heavier panels something like an Arakawa system would work well, otherwise a clear nylon line would work.

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Skye Malish-Olson
Exhibition Designer
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas TX
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-31-2017 03:53 PM
From: James Scott
Subject: Museum Exhibit Walls

Hello all,

I had a quick question about museum exhibit walls, specifically curved walls.

We have a big curved wall that our temporary exhibits go in and without nailing a hook in every time we have a wall exhibit, we've decided to use a painters tape and Velcro system to save our walls and to save the integrity of the foam board exhibits.

This is an acceptable procedure for hanging smaller boards, but our problem occurs when larger boards are put up. The curve is too great for the board to lay flat against the wall causing them to fall frequently throughout the day!

Does anyone use any other method for hanging foam board exhibits on curved walls?
OR
Are there any ideas of improving our current method?

Thanks!

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James Scott
Education Assistant
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