LINDISFARNE MARY ROSE MUSEUM BEHIND THE SCENES GOSPELS, DURHAM How Mary Rose and rose Special 8 page pullout One amazing book, again after 400 years about what goes into one amazing journey under the Solent making showcases

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By Appointment to HM The Queen Display Case Suppliers ClickNetherfield Limited Livingston

How Mary Rose and rose again

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Welcome Diary Inside

From Jim Welcome to the latest edition of Showcase; EVERY SHOWCASE BEHIND THE Stewart, ClickNetherfield’s annual magazine 14/15 TELLS A STORY SCENES Managing produced for our clients, our industry MAY Director contacts, our ever widening network of distributors and of course our staff. Museums & Heritage Show We’ve freshened up the look and feel London, UK of our magazine this year and as well as some fascinating articles on projects 19-21 we’ve completed, I’m delighted to see MAY articles focussing on what we believe to be the core values of our business; aesthetically beautiful cases, engineering American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo 2014 excellence and high quality performance Seattle, USA of our products. We’re fully committed to innovation and also a right first time ethos and there’s a remarkable feature in 22 this magazine about a showcase sealed MAY to the highest degree possible.

We’ve also had a hugely busy year for Touring Exhibitions Group Marketplace investing in new technologies (more of this Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK inside) to keep our business at the forefront of our industry. Our industry is a complex LINDISFARNE GOSPELS DURHAM and challenging one and we believe 25/26 EXCELLENCE THEN, IS NOT AN ACT, JUNE One amazing book, one incredible the only way to deliver the quality and 04 16 BUT A HABIT service that our clients demand is constant journey. Creating a factory for the 21st century. investment in new technologies and OpenCulture 2014 THE NEW MARY ROSE MUSEUM THE SECRET LIFE OF A PROTOTYPE continuous improvements in our products; London, UK 06 Historic Dockyard displays Henry VIII’s 17 Save time, money and create a better it’s what sets us apart from the herd. iconic flagship. showcase. We’ve also finalised and launched our 22-26 latest range of products specifically SEP THE ENDURING STORY OF THE LINE SHOW & TELL aimed at museum storage; please get 10 OF KINGS 18 Your technical questions answered. in touch if you’d like our new Heritage The longest-running visitor attraction IIC 2014 Hong Kong Congress OUR MOST UNUSUAL SHOWCASE Storage Collection brochure. in the world. 19 SO FAR Enjoy the magazine and please do give LONDON’S LOST JEWELS An incubator-cum-altarpiece for living us your feedback, it helps us shape next 9-10 28 The largest collection of Elizabethan and heart cells. year’s magazine. OCT Early Stuart jewellery in the world. For up to date THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE news and case Museums Association Annual DISCOVERY PARK OF AMERICA studies, visit 20 Keeping our production processes at Conference & Exhibition 31 A new $100,000,000 Museum Park clicknetherfield. the cutting edge. Cardiff, UK Complex in Tennessee town of Union City. com

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Gospel Truth ELIZABETH BRANIGAN & EMMA HAMLETT FROM DURHAM UNIVERSITY

“We asked for an air exchange rate Can you tell me a bit about the exhibition and what it is much improved case seals, an air circulation method using an about? adjustable control fan which moved the air over the silica gel and of 0.01 and would have settled for The centrepiece of the exhibition is the gospel book itself, written into the showcase, a very large silica gel tray and a fan in the base 0.05. The final showcases came out in honour of St Cuthbert and displayed alongside the relics of the case which comes on automatically when the lights are from his shrine. The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of many national switched on to reduce the heat gain from the light projector and with an AER of 0.01 over 24 hours. treasures now held in the collections of the British Library, one transformer. of the greatest libraries in the world. The Gospels are displayed Remarkable.” We asked for an AER of 0.01 (air exchange rate, or the air leakage and stored in optimum conditions and the British Library’s rate of the display case) in the hope of coming somewhere near conservation team have carefully assessed the pages that can be and settled on an AER of 0.05. The final showcases far exceeded displayed in future and the pages are turned regularly to minimise our expectations when they were tested as they came out with an the risk of damage to any specific opening. AER of 0.01 over 24 hours. The cases have performed very well What’s going inside the showcases we’ve made you? throughout the period of the exhibition and the environmental Manuscripts dating from the 7th to the 17th centuries and Anglo- conditions in the cases have been beautifully stable. Saxon metalwork objects associated with the cult of St. Cuthbert. Was security also a consideration? Does this bring any particular conservation challenges? In order to meet the requirements of the Government Indemnity Parchment is extremely sensitive to changes in relative humidity, Scheme and of some lenders, we needed a suite of showcases and can ‘cockle’. If the parchment moves like this, it can de- – a combination of desk and upright – that were fully framed. stabilise the inks and pigments and precipitate losses. With the desk cases in particular, which were to show books and manuscripts, we wanted to ensure that the framing provided We needed to achieve very tight environmental parameters sufficient resilience whilst also affording a good view for the which specified a temperature at a fixed point between 16-19C visitor. We worked with the National Security Adviser and with no more than +/- 1C variation in 24 hours and a relative ClickNetherfield to determine the optimum thickness and depth humidity of 50% with no more than +/- 5% variation in 24 of the steel frame, as well as the extent of the rebate of the glass hours for the loans. We wanted to control the RH in the cases into this to prevent flexing. We also worked on how a greater themselves with prosorb silica gel. Using our previous experience degree of security could be achieved through different suiting of of how display cases did or didn’t perform with this method, we locks, secondary locks, access mechanisms, and physical securing identified areas we wanted to improve, and working closely with of the whole unit. ClickNetherfield’s Technical Director and Project Manager we came up with a specification for the new cases. This included Did you have any special requests for your project? Yes. The schedule was tight - with sign-off needed from third parties for the specification and design of the showcases, and the showcases themselves being needed on site sufficiently in advance of the exhibition to allow thorough testing and monitoring. LINDISFARNE GOSPELS DURHAM: ONE Aesthetic considerations were also important in the design of AMAZING BOOK, ONE AMAZING JOURNEY the cases as these were to be added to our existing suite - so RUN FROM 1ST JULY - 30TH SEPTEMBER AT our designers, Studio MB, had to match fabric colours and RAL PALACE GREEN LIBRARY, DURHAM UNIVERSITY. numbers to those used in existing cases to give a consistent ‘look’ across the whole suite.

4 5 MARY ROSE MUSEUM, PORTSMOUTH

For the first time, the ship has been reunited with the possessions of the crew and all the material of a Tudor warship, How some 19,000 artefacts in total.

Article by The Mary Rose Museum opened in May Sally Tyrrell, 2013 and demonstrates excellence, Head of innovation and imagination. The museum Development, Mary Mary Rose displays the starboard section of the Museum flagship that served Henry VIII for 34 years, before spending over 400 years under the Solent.

The Mary Rose and its unique collection Rose... are now housed in an extraordinary and elegant museum. The exhibition engages visitors through the wonderful collection of objects and the stories they tell of the people on board, providing a unique insight into Tudor life and death. Everything in the museum is original and is all from one archaeological site, capturing the moment when the ship and most of the crew were lost.

The interior architecture was based on the painstaking archaeological excavation and recording of the exact location of every find. A section through the ship from keel to upper deck allowed the project team to see inside the Mary Rose and reunite the original contents deck-by-deck at the moment before she capsized.

A ‘virtual hull’ represents the missing port side with all the guns on their LEFT original Tudor gun carriages, alongside The fragile cannonballs, gun furniture, stores, chests and rose objects’ rope and rigging. Visitors walk between conservation the conserved starboard section of the requires very hull and the virtual hull, experiencing the precise control of both humidity exhibition in context, as if they were on and light. board the Mary Rose. à again

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Showcases for the Mary Rose CENTRE The museum spaces had to be large. And airtight. re-create the dark, cramped spaces And beautiful. below decks. TOP RIGHT Fully motorised doors for easy access.

BOTTOM RIGHT Glazed floor allowing view down through the ship’s decks.

MANY OF THE OBJECTS ARE VERY FRAGILE AND IMPREGNATED WITH SALT, SO THEIR CONSERVATION NEEDS PRECISE CONTROL.

ABOVE à The atmosphere of being on the ship is further à The major challenges for ClickNetherfield enhanced by the walkways following the shape of the were threefold: to produce an extremely large The Mary Rose Museum is a centre deck from stern to bow, and low ceilings on the lower glazed gallery 35m long and four decks high that of excellence for deck. The museum spaces are deliberately dark with met the stringent air tightness required for precise maritime archaeology daylight excluded, the only lighting either focused on environmental control; to construct the long walkways and conservation. the objects or concealed under the walkway handrail, on sloping ‘decks’ that enabled the ‘pull and slide’ lighting the space and re-creating the dark cramped doors measuring up to 3.5m high to open easily, spaces below decks. allowing installation and access to the collection; and finally to conceal the door operating mechanisms After being under the sea for over 400 years, many from the viewing public. of the objects are very fragile and are impregnated with salts so their conservation requires very precise The museum is exceeding the Trust’s expectation control of both temperature and humidity in order to in terms of visitor feedback and is the fulfilment ensure the long term preservation of this wonderful of the ambitions of thousands of volunteer divers, collection. à archaeologists, historians and dedicated staff and volunteers who have worked to create a legacy for future generations.

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CREATING A NEW CHAPTER IN THE STORY OF The THE WORLD’S LONGEST- RUNNING VISITOR ATTRACTION - THE WHITE Line of TOWER AT THE TOWER OF LONDON. Kings

Last summer, one of Britain’s oldest almost four centuries and delivers a Article by museums - Royal Armouries – joined powerful statement about monarchy. Our Julia Lumley, forces with Historic Royal Palaces to forebears played little heed to historical Communications Officer, Royal present the longest-running visitor accuracy and the line of wooden horses, Armouries attraction in the world to a modern carved heads and armours featured audience – the White Tower’s historic only the “good kings” of the realm and ‘Line of Kings’. omitted queens - plus more infamous monarchs such as Richard III. This new exhibition is the final chapter in the redevelopment of the White Tower – Evidence that survives to this day gives us Royal Armouries’ ancestral and spiritual a hint of what 17th century visitors made home – and arguably the most exciting of this very visible testimony to enduring challenge of all. It is the latest permanent kingship. exhibition in a series of new galleries For example, Lodewijk Huygens, a visitor within the White Tower: Treasures of the to the exhibition in 1652, noted, “...we Royal Armouries; Power House; and the entered a room where horses’ armour Storehouse displays in the basement. used in former times was stored on The latest exhibition comprises over 500 wooden horses with armed men on them. objects which have formed part of this There were two suits of armour worn by magnificent display during its 350 year long Henry VII and two worn by Henry VIII; they history. From the anachronistic ‘armour of were not very costly though”. William the Conqueror’ – to the addition Ned Ward, a visitor in 1699, wrote ‘A visit of the last monarch George II - exhibits to the Tower of London’ in his humorous include not only historic armours worn magazine, ‘The London Spy’, “As we by Henry VIII, Charles I and James II but gently mov’d along and viewed the also many of the original and unique 17th princely scarecrows, he told us to whom century wooden horses and kings’ heads. RIGHT each suit of armour belonged originally, Housed within the oldest part of the adding some memorandums out of The Line of Kings Tower, the iconic White Tower, the new- history to every empty iron-side; some takes centre stage look ‘Line of Kings’ completes the latest true, some false, supplying that with for its 21st century chapter in a story which dates back invention which he wanted in memory”. audience.

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The Art

Article by Philip Quartly, Manager, Museum Projects, in Hobart Designcraft, Canberra

Images courtesy of Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Designcraft and ClickNetherfield were LEFT broad and diverse nature of the extensive The suite of 35 multi-bay, multi-door number of National and State tourism (TMAG) is now the centrepiece of Hobart’s selected to develop and supply over 50 Multi-bay Vision collection required the most flexible Vision showcases, supplied with awards along with the accolade of the vibrant and robust arts scene. The proprietary showcases along with various showcases. product to be supplied, with the intention flexible and interchangeable tertiary main Museums Australia award (2013 extensive $30m Stage 1 redevelopment custom showcases, a large volume of of future-proofing the investment in fit-out including a tensioned shelving MA Conference) are testament to the has transformed the Museum. Significant exhibition furniture and tertiary fit-out CENTRE showcases and exhibition furniture. system, graphic, multi-media and success of this high profile refurbishment. infrastructure and building works have product. High levels of customisation, exhibition content display options, Henry Hunter Gallery. Designcraft, the Museum Executive Concept plans for Stage 2, including created new galleries from previously strict heritage restraints and the offered a beautifully refined aesthetic and the in-house design team at TMAG Travelling Exhibition galleries unused or unusable exhibition spaces, requirement for high performance complementing the grandeur of the RIGHT worked closely with the ClickNetherfield appropriate for international exhibitions, including the Bond Store which is Museum Grade showcases which had Henry Hunter gallery. Beautiful minimalist technical and design teams to develop Public and Public Art spaces were nationally recognised for its cultural and to offer a sympathetic aesthetic to the Vision cases. the option of customised Vision High visitor numbers (over 550,000 in the released in February 2014, so watch this heritage significance, and which is one of restored heritage building made for a showcases, which formed the backbone first year) made TMAG the most visited space for more news. Hobart’s oldest heritage buildings. particularly challenging project. The of the showcase requirement. tourism attraction in Tasmania and a large

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THE BLACK WATCH CASTLE & MUSEUM RE-OPENED IN JUNE BEHIND 2013 FOLLOWING A £3.5M REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.

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The origins of The Black Watch stretch artefacts spanning the whole history of back to 1725 with the formation of the The Black Watch. Midline Midline Independent Companies to watch over Theatre The Museum project team worked the Scottish Highlands. The Black Watch alongside designers Studio MB to design was formally raised as the British Army’s stunning displays for thousands of first regiment of Highland Infantry in 1739. objects. The exhibition cases, provided by Baseline Baseline of War Its history as an independent regiment ClickNetherfield, were many in number, came to an end in 2006 when the 1st O wide O wide O wide O wide O wide O wide and range in size from tabletop to epic Battalion The Black Watch became The scale. The end result is a high quality Black Watch, 3rd Battalion Royal Regiment and engaging display. The concept and of Scotland. design has been faithful to the nature Article by Emma Halford-Forbes, The Museum has been housed in dramatic of the collection, and the Castle itself, Museum Manager, and historic Balhousie Castle since the making the most of the personal stories of The Blackwatch Museum 1960s and is home to a fine collection of generations of Black Watch men.

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14 15 Its great to see more and more people are allowing more time for prototyping. A few EXCELLENCE, THEN, FAIL FAST, days in prototyping can save weeks in manufacturing. The four steps below tell the IS NOT AN ACT, LEARN QUICK story of a prototype we created recently for Oman, taking one month from instruction to BUT A HABIT. THE SECRET LIFE OF A PROTOTYPE commercial1 product.

ore than two millennia and machinery in the last six months In manufacturing and engineering there SKETCH MODEL have come and gone since alone, we have redefined standards are numerous management systems: 1 2 MAristotle said that, and yet and expectations across the board. Six Sigma, 5 “S”, Lean Manufacturing, there is no better way to describe the With this continual investment in our FMEA - and so on. These systems, 1 difference between those that lead the technology, our processes and our developed by competent and profitable way and those that copy. manufacturing capabilities, we are businesses, all try to encapsulate constantly strengthening our ethos of and codify elements of excellence. 2 3 Excellence can be found in many places, “right first time, every time”. However without cultural anchors, but there are always three common these approaches can drift and often 1 2 factors: a total commitment to delighting Our team of design engineers use disappoint. If you distil all of these the client, and the further obsessions a combination of rapid prototyping fashionable approaches to their core, for detail and consistency. Becoming technologies, including 3D printing excellence is won through great strategy, 3 4 outstanding in any area requires an and powerful computer modelling to ensure that our client’s display highly effective management systems intimate knowledge of your client’s cases not only look beautiful but are applied with the lightest of touches, Start with pen2 and ink sketches to get to a concept Make a digital3 prototype with 3D modelling software. requirements, along with the passion to strong, resistant to attack and achieve and a pride that absolutely must fill the be better than you were yesterday, and untethered by manufacturing capability or cost. Check that it can translate into a function design industry leading performance. chests of all members of the business. an absolute refusal to compromise. 4 Fast and accurate management Excellence cannot be implemented Our colleagues are our biggest information is essential for making the piecemeal or calculated in a commercial advantage; they are highly 3 BUILD 4 IMPROVE right decisions at the right time. The spreadsheet, it can’t be pinpointed or skilled, care deeply about delighting our implementation of real-time shop floor measured. Graphs don’t show a journey clients, are proud to work here and are data collection means our management to excellence, nor can training impart it. obsessed with museum display cases. team can identify opportunities for Excellence is the measure of everyone’s The best people in the world would the continuous improvement of our contribution. It is the dominant gene in struggle without the right tools and processes both quickly and intelligently. all employees. It becomes the test of all 4 materials. With hundreds of thousands Constantly developing from good to decisions and can be heard in voices of of pounds invested in new equipment great is part of our organisational DNA. the organisation.

Article by Alistair Williams, Operations Director Alistair’s energy is focused on enabling our people to be fantastic - his boundless enthusiasm and passion for manufacturing and engineering bring him great joy and enormous satisfaction. Through hundreds of small iterations, Alistair will make sure that we remain knowledge leaders in the museum display case arena. Under construction. Keep iterating. In four days, over 20 improvements were identified, designed and implemented. SHOW AND TELL How do you get awarded What’s the biggest What does “AER” mean A special commission of a non-showcase the Royal Warrant? Do showcase you’ve ever and why does it matter? What’s the most project from Bio-Artist Charlotte Jarvis you just apply for one, or made? And the longest? unusual show case to create an incubator-cum-altarpiece actually work on Royal for living heart cells! This required very you’ve ever been specific conditions with tightly controlled projects? asked for? temperature, CO2 levels, humidity and lighting, all whilst following her distinctive By supplying high quality The Mary Rose showcase is AER stands for Air Exchange altarpiece design aesthetic. We designed products and services on a the biggest in volume - at Rate. High quality showcases and produced a ‘display incubator’ the likes regular basis to the Royal 32m long and 10m high, are usually designed to of which had never even been attempted Households of HM The this is probably one of the achieve an air exchange rate before, successfully achieving the aesthetics, Queen, HRH The Duke of largest combined museum of 0.1 per 24 hour period, but security and environmental control required Edinburgh or HRH The Prince display cases in the world. by applying our design and - and most importantly, keeping the beating of Wales for not less than five We have built one longer one engineering excellence we heart cells alive! years out of seven to include - 43m long for the National have managed to achieve the year immediately prior Maritime Museum. an incredible AER of 0.01 to application. Amongst in our goal to exceed ever The challenges are plentiful other things, suppliers are demanding conservation but mostly lie on a practical also required to demonstrate standards and to maintain level. How can we safely that they have a sustainable one of the world’s greatest handle large glass panels? environmental policy and books - the priceless and Will they even fit inside the action plan. irreplaceable Lindisfarne building? How will the cases Gospels. This (entire decimal We’ve held the Royal Warrant integrate with set works by place) reduction in case for five years, and are both others? leakage approaches the delighted and extremely theoretical barometric limit of proud to have had it renewed case sealing and has seldom for another five years. Recent been achieved before without projects we’ve completed for the help of NASA. the Royal Household include Fashion Rules at Kensington Palace and The Line of Kings at the Royal Armouries.

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Read more about the Read more about the Read more about the Line of Kings exhibition Mary Rose exhibition Lindisfarne exhibition THE 1TOOLS OF THE TRADE

OVER THE LAST YEAR WE’VE BEEN BUSY UPGRADING THE TECHNOLOGY WE USE TO KEEP OUR PRODUCTION PROCESSES AT LEVELS OF QUALITY OF WHICH WE CAN BE PROUD.

rom a manufacturing glass bonding equipment, and (used on pull and slide doors), whereas perspective, we committed these two developments combined our new [XYZ] completed more Fhundreds of thousands to deliver truly beautiful joints. operations in fewer than 15 minutes. of pounds in capital finance And then there’s our new CNC brake We’re growing in knowledge, too. towards the purchase of state of press. An as yet unsung hero in our Recently Scott, our manufacturing the art Computer Numerically upgrade plan, it quietly and efficiently engineer, revisited one previously Controlled (CNC) equipment. bends and shapes sheet metal into written program and reduced Our new CNC metal punch is a intricate and accurate components. the number of tool changes from VERTICAL MACHINING CNC PRESS BRAKE POLISHED MITRED EDGES case in point. This year it could be The press consistently produces high 18 per cycle to just three! Our three axis CNC vertical machine Our new CNC press brake has a beam With the installation of the Bottero heard thumping away on our factory quality parts and has dramatically In 2014 our experience will enable center has increased our accuracy, length of over 2000mm and computer edge polishing machine, we can now floor, consistently and efficiently improved our assembly process, us to put all these new tools to precision and repeatability. Using the controlled backstop travel of 1900mm. produce the most accurate and precise turning out a fine and wide variety especially where welding is needed. even greater advantage – so we integrated tool, carousel changeover With a positioning accuracy of +/- 100 angled edges in the world. With a track of sheet metal components. Finally – for now, at least – the latest can achieve our goal of right first times have been reduced from 90 sec- microns coupled with 800kN of force, this capacity of 150kG per 1000mm this Another major acquisition in 2013 member of our world-class machine time, on time, every time whilst onds to 4 seconds. This 20 horsepower essential metal working machine is both machine can profile truly enormous was probably the most advanced centres is a metal-cutting and British- remaining competitively priced. machining center weighing in at 9 more sophisticated and more efficient sheets of laminated glass at a maximum glass-mitring machine in the UK. made superstar! It’s improved our tonnes can accommodate workpieces than its two predecessors. Its 9kW speed of up to 6000mm in 60 seconds, We are proud to own the most This sophisticated machine tool accuracy by an order of magnitude up to 1600mm long and 600mm wide. connected load is only drawn during a although for the quality we now expect modern and technologically can achieve phenomenal accuracy and reduced cycle times incredibly. The 8,000rpm spindle speed and the cycle which has resulted in energy savings we run the machine somewhat slower. advanced museum display case and surface finish. We have also Our old mills were taking well over an Titanium Nitride coated carbide tooling of more than 78%. This machine tool has The machine is equipped with five manufacturing plant in the world. invested significantly in our UV hour to machine a strengthening bar enables us to reduce machining time enabled tighter tolerances and increased super abrasive diamond impregnated from 115 minutes to 17 minutes and run manufacturing capacity over a wide range grinding heads, each with a specific six components at a time. of folded metal parts. duty. How we care for these grinding tools is a closely guarded secret. COME TO SCOTLAND AND SEE FOR YOURSELF, WE WELCOME ALL CLIENT VISITS. INTERNATIONAL MARKET INSIGHTS

GLOBAL VIEW

WE’RE ALWAYS SURPRISED HOW DIFFERENT THE MUSEUM SHOWCASE MARKET IS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. FIND OUT WHY.

Australia Brazil Middle East UK USA Denmark Reliabitliy is key Bringing new solutions Huge successes in The Middle Changing Trends Working the American Way Security or design? A classic A significant percentage of the market It is no secret that financial East over the last 8 years It’s been fascinating to see the trends Crossing successfully into our 13th conflict is “remote and regional” where non- sustainability is a big issue for The work that ClickNetherfield do change in our home market over year of business as ClickNetherfield The conflict between security and museum professional staff run the museums worldwide and the Brazilian in The Gulf countries such as Qatar, the years. Whereas Optiwhite glass USA, a joint marketing venture of design is an issue that Scandinavian Museum or Gallery. They rely heavily museum industry is not alien to those Kuwait, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi can used to be aspirational, it’s pretty ClickNetherfield and Kubik Maltbie, we museums have to address actively and on our expertise, and their focus is issues. However, Museums are a vital differ enormously from some of the much the norm now; and where low have gained some unique perspectives constructively. The National Museum on simple to use, maintenance free, part of our culture and a number reflective glass used to be thought of along the way… versatile showcases. Reliability is key; work done in the UK. of Denmark is setting a new standard of cities have recently received as unaffordable, it’s now aspirational. in this area by demanding that the freight and installation can easily cost Qatar for example has been the site The vast majority of our work here in investments for the re-development of The requirement for tightly sealed security is top notch – with more than the product, so it can be an of two of the largest projects that the States over the last 12+ years has expensive and logistical exercise to fix, their museums. cases with a low air exchange rate firm framework and very thick glass. the business has ever undertaken been completely bespoke, architec- resolve or retro-fit the showcases. (AER) has become much more We face many challenges to transform in the Museum of Islamic Art, which turally integrated, and beautifully Scandinavia and Denmark have security common and is requested regularly There are no national or industry the way the exhibitions in our museums opened in 2008, the Qatar National designed showcases created by the standards for showcases called Skafor. whereas previously, it was usually standards, so institutions follow and are designed, and to bring new Library under construction. In scale, likes of Ralph Appelbaum Associates Skafor grading has four levels; red, national museums that had this develop different in-house protocols. technologies to us. We understand the both of these projects outstrip or Frank Gehry International’s offices. blue, green and yellow; red indicating requirement. Interesting to also However, high-grade museum quality importance and necessity of modern any recent projects in the UK, but The acrylic bonnets of the world are the highest level of security and yellow products, high security, manageable note that pretty much every UK solutions for 21st century museums and a cohesive business strategy and America’s equivalent of “system” the lowest. Skafor-grading builds on and controlled internal display museum insists on having only Abloy personally, I see the recently confirmed management skill is required to enable cases in Europe. In America, when a the old standards of safety deposit climates are all features that are locks whereas that’s not always the collaboration between my firm and ClickNetherfield to comfortably designer intends upon creating a boxes. Danish showcases have been becoming more and more the norm situation internationally. On top of ClickNetherfield as a logical step in the upscale and meet the challenges of bespoke approach, they start thinking designed and tested according to the and expectation of our clients. this, ClickNetherfield are driving evolution both of my business and the the bigger projects when they are of one of the four or five major same system. Norway and Sweden a trend to fully mitred cases more modernisation of museums in Brazil in awarded. international showcase builders, have also adopted this system. So, often than not. the coming years. otherwise it’s an off the shelf bonnet or showcases produced in Scandinavia are “shop-built” enclosure by one of the characterised by solid constructions, Exhibit Fabricators. thick glass and heavy framework.

Find out more from Phillip Quartly, Find out more from Magui Kämpf, Find out more from Khalid Qaissieh Find out more from Find out more from Ryan Skorch Find out more from Arne Kvorning, Manager Museum Projects M+E DESIGN, museus + exposições Tel: +974(0) 466 7292 [email protected] Tel: +1 (0) 856 234 3448 Kvorning Design and Communication, www.Designcraft.net.au Tel: +55 21 980678020 [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +45 33 93 93 53 [email protected] [email protected] THE MUSEUM OF METHODISM

Keep The Faith THE MUSEUM OF METHODISM AND JOHN WESLEY’S HOUSE RE-OPENED IN MAY 2013 FOLLOWING A MAJOR INVESTMENT WHICH ALLOWED FOR CONSERVING AND IMPROVING THE HISTORIC STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING AND HAS RESULTED IN A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION AND A NEW LEASE OF LIFE FOR THE MUSEUM.

Located in the 18th century crypt of Wesley’s heritage stewards of the museum, new air- Article by Chapel at City Road (close to London Old conditioning and heating piping and ducting, Christian Dettlaff, Street), the space had originally been turned as well as a new exit to the Chapel’s garden, so Curator, Wesley Chapel into a museum in 1984. At the time, its design visitors could see and visit John Wesley’s grave was progressive, even cutting edge. However, monument without having to walk through the ABOVE LEFT ABOVE RIGHT almost thirty years later the space had become entire building complex. tired, the interpretation required revision and The re-designed space Display cases are The 2012 refurbishment aimed to strip the allows for the display of designed to blend into many objects needed a well-deserved rest. space back to its original Georgian outline, more objects. the environment. With Barker Langham as Museum specialist revealing all wooden columns and ceiling consultants and architects John McAslan & beams as well as the very interesting floor. The Partners (well known in connection with the new display was organised thematically, with recent King’s Cross Station redevelopment) as individual themes presented in clearly separate building ‘boom’ of the late 19th and ceramics, has been constructed project architects, the Chapel embarked on areas. Display cases would be placed around early 20th centuries and the life of which links the meeting room next an ambitious refurbishment project. Part of the periphery of the space where possible, to important 20th century preachers. door with the museum, encouraging the challenge was to integrate and re-design emphasise the architecture, facilitate a more Alongside can be found displays on visitors to explore the large ceramic a large meeting space next to the museum, open space and create vistas throughout John Wesley, the principal founder collections of the museum – and enter to somehow tie this into the museum, to the museum. To draw attention from the of the Methodist movement, and a the actual museum space next door. use the space better and encourage Chapel comparatively low ceiling, ambience lighting number of important 18th, 19th and visitors and the congregation to use ‘their’ was built into the showcases at the top and Although funding is still required to 20th century paintings. Those who museum more extensively while also allowing bottom, also around the periphery of the put in place two more display cases would like to explore Wesleyan hymns for the display of more objects from the space; this way, only a few ceiling spotlights to and complete the refurbishment, the or sermons, as well as the burial records museum’s collections. At the same time, highlight important objects and areas without museum has had its busiest few months of the chapel and archival material a smaller meeting room and the curator’s showcases, were required. ever since re-opening in May 2013. from the museum’s collection can do office – previously a small space carved from Visitors can explore the history of the complex so by using interactive tablets. At the Working alongside museum designers, the museum – were to be integrated into and the site, look at the early development ABOVE centre of the museum a multi-screen architects and fit-out specialists the new space to create a larger, more open of Methodism through a display case on audio visual presentation brings alive Conistain, ClickNetherfield supplied and capacious space. Last but not least, RIGHT preaching and publishing and another on the story of John Wesley, the site and display cases, drawer units and lighting the refurbishment provided an excellent Visitors can the first Methodist Chapel in London, the the development of Methodism, and designed to blend into the museum opportunity to rethink and put into place now use “their” ‘Foundery’ (housed in an old cannon foundry). museum more ties together the museum experience. environment and emphasise the original vital new infrastructure. This included a new They can also learn more about the chapel extensively. In addition, a large new showcase features of the architectural space with collections store, a room for the volunteer containing Wesleyana, especially elegant simplicity.

24 25 ADVERTORIAL

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26 27 THE CHEAPSIDE HOARD: LONDON’S LOST JEWELS

“I love the way the jewellery is Lost displayed. It’s breathtaking.” & Found DISCOVERING THE MYSTERIOUS CHEAPSIDE HOARD AT THE MUSEUM OF LONDON

The Cheapside Hoard was gemstones, tiny, exquisite, fragile this outstanding collection of discovered by chance in 1912, – posed a great challenge to the jewellery and other contextual buried beneath a cellar floor on Museum’s project team, exhibition objects, such as costume items, Cheapside in London, having designers Ben Kelly Design, jewellery caskets and jeweller’s lain undiscovered for more than lighting designers Studio ZNA tools that help to paint a picture two-and-a-half centuries. It is the and mount-maker Tony Jones. of the fashions and culture at play largest collection of Elizabethan in Tudor and early Stuart London. This challenge brought forth and early Stuart jewellery in the great creativity, innovation and Key partnerships enabled the world – an exquisite treasure craftsmanship in the conservation, Museum’s team to create unusual trove of incalculable value. mounting and lighting of the displays around individual key It offers a wealth of insights pieces. Intricate gold and enamel pieces. Master perfumer Roja on Elizabethan and early chains were painstakingly stitched Dove created a unique fragrance Stuart London – as a centre of by the Museum’s conservation inspired by an opulently- craftsmanship and conspicuous team, link-by-link, onto discreet bejewelled scent bottle, using consumption, at the crossroads wire frames and – like all of the ingredients available in the 17th of the Old and New Worlds in jewels that would once have been century, which visitors are able an age of global exploration. It worn pendant – were suspended to smell in the exhibition. also explores the mysteries that within their cases from bespoke Exhibition sponsor Gemfields remain: who owned the Hoard, mounts, each individually lit, to loaned to the exhibition the when and why was it hidden, and bring them to convey a sense of spectacular Medusa emerald why was it never reclaimed? how they would have been worn. crystal, which is displayed Creating a compelling exhibition Showcase manufacturer alongside an exquisite emerald that did justice to the breath-taking ClickNetherfield supplied a range watch, lending understanding qualities of the Cheapside Hoard of display cases with internal to the watch’s form and the – some 500 items of jewellery and lighting which were used to display skill involved in creating it.

Article by Elpiniki Psalti, THE CHEAPSIDE HOARD: LONDON’S Major Exhibitions LOST JEWELS, MUSEUM OF LONDON, Project Manager, 11 OCTOBER 2013 – 27 APRIL 2014. Museum of London

28 29 THE BRIGG RAFT MUSEUM

A spectacular Bronze Trust, the “Raft” went on Age raft has returned to public display for the first a North Lincolnshire town time ever in May 2013. having been locked away The bespoke vertical lift for nearly 40 years. showcase for preserving the The 3,000-year-old flat- “Raft” is one of the largest bottomed oak boat was found cases with motorised access in 1888 by workmen digging we have supplied to date, for clay between the old with the vertical lift actuators and new River Ancholme. capable of supporting a massive 2 tonnes in weight. The sewn-plank boat was The glass itself weighs in being preserved and stored total 1.5 tonnes and required at the National Maritime six of our strongest and Museum in London but in most handsome technicians 2011 the museum agreed on-site to lift it into place. to loan the “Raft” to North Some fun was also had in Lincolnshire Council for the factory when we asked conservation and display for volunteers to sit around LEFT in the new Brigg Heritage the case framework during Centre. Having now been The Brigg Raft construction to help test in its case at the fully restored by conservators the lifting capabilities. Heritage Centre. at York Archaeological

One of the largest motorised cases we’ve ever made, weighing 1.5 tonnes and capable of supporting a massive 2 tonnes in weight.

RIGHT A ClickNetherfield staff testing the strength of the case actuators at our factory in Very Brigg Livingston. Adventure 30 31 DISCOVERY PARK, TENNESSEE

Native Americans Gallery: everything LEFT from pottery to a recreation of a French A new museum trader’s cabin and a holographic and educational storyteller. venue focused on nature, science, Natural History Gallery: a giant technology, history projection globe simulates the surface and art. of other planets alongside 22 recreations of dinosaurs. BELOW

Regional History Gallery: a 22,000 gallon Atrium with a dinosaur skeleton aquarium filled with fish native to this and a 50-foot- region alongside local tools, crafts and tall metal human stories. figure. Science Space and Technology Gallery: featuring the Starship Theatre which allows visitors to navigate the galaxy via the 180 degree wrap-around screen.

Transportation Gallery: innovative early vehicles, race cars, motorcycles, muscle cars and antique gas station equipment.

Enlightenment Gallery: a curious collection of exotic tribal carvings and artefacts, a statue of Buddha, and a vampire killing it.

Military Gallery: artefacts dating back to the founding of the United States up to modern day warfare. Armoured vehicles, Article by Located in the small northwest Tennessee a helicopter, and a suspended airplane. Rob Kingrey, town of Union City, comes a new $100m When planning the museum complex, we Director of Museum Park Complex. The Park centres Discovery Facilities made a commitment to quality, security, around the modern architecture-inspired and Exhibits, and artefact preservation. Ryan Skorch, 100,000 square foot Discovery Centre Discovery Park our ClickNetherfield US representative of America designed by Vernor Johnson Architects in introduced us to our remarkable cases. Park of Boston, Massachusetts and is filled with As soon as we saw the quality and ClickNetherfield cases. Discovery Centre craftsmanship of the artefact preservation is comprised of nine eclectic Galleries on cases, we were sold. Jim Finlayson and America three levels. Angel came from Scotland with our Children’s Exploration Gallery: water product to install. tables, buildable structures, mind twisters Jim and Angel went above and beyond and a trip down the giant metal framed their duty to meet our deadlines in a IN THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA, IN human. THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, SOMETHING timely, neat, and professional manner. We Energy Gallery: an energy tower (power are currently planning to add additional EMERGES FROM THE RURAL CORN FIELDS source game) with a Jacob’s ladder on ClickNetherfield cases as the need arises OTHER THAN THE MUSIC THAT MAKES THIS top, which fires up when a champion is to maintain the level of quality within our PART OF THE UNITED STATES FAMOUS. declared. organisation.

32 33 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MUSEUM, PHILADELPHIA

The Real Philadelphia Story

by Karie Diethorn, The Benjamin Franklin Museum in museum in the internationally acclaimed Chief Curator, Independence National Historical Park Franklin Court features historic artefacts, National Park Service, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) reopened computer animations, and interactive Independence National Park to the public on 24 August 2013 after displays highlighting Franklin’s life and a two-year renovation project that character. Six exhibit galleries allow included ClickNetherfield among its visitors to explore Franklin’s most team members. Independence National prominent character traits: sociability, Historical Park, a unit of the United ambition and rebelliousness, motivation States Department of Interior’s National to improve, curiosity, strategic and Park Service, tells the story of the persuasive ability, and foresight. founding of the American republic to ClickNetherfield supplied the Benjamin over five million visitors a year through Franklin Museum with 23 glass exhibit the preservation and interpretation of cases of the Prism, Vista, and Vision historic resources like Independence Hall types. These cases allow visitors an and the Liberty Bell. intimate view of the historic objects (like Franklin’s chess set and the ink balls used in his printing office) on display. Designed to “disappear”, these Designed to “disappear”, these cases cases lend themselves well to the lend themselves well to the exhibit’s scale and aesthetic that encourage visitors to IMAGE CREDIT: VISITPHILLY exhibit’s scale and aesthetic that discover the many facets of Franklin’s life. encourage visitors to discover The cases also support the museum’s preservation standard for the fragile Service in 1976 under the direction of the Franklin Museum were: QuinnEvans ABOVE objects on display by managing interior Philadelphia architectural firm of Venturi, (architects), Daniel J. Keating Company the many facets of Franklin’s life. The Electrical Apparatus designed by conditions with passive humidity control Rauch, and Scott Brown. Robert Venturi’s (construction), Remer & Talbott (exhibit Benjamin Franklin. Independence National Historical Park’s (i.e. desiccant). iconic “ghost structure” - an open curators), CassonMann (exhibition Benjamin Franklin Museum explores frame steel sculpture that portrays the design), Kubik Maltbie (exhibit The new museum facility sits below the life, times, and legacy of Benjamin exterior dimensions of Franklin’s home fabrication), Memory Collective and ground immediately adjacent to the Franklin, America’s renown 18th-century - is prominent in the site’s landscape. In Bluecadet (animation, computer THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MUSEUM site of Franklin’s last home. The site was IS OPEN DAILY ALL YEAR. printer/scientist/diplomat/statesman. addition to ClickNetherfield, the principle design, and video). first developed by the National Park The revitalized 20,000 square foot firms involved in the new Benjamin

34 35 SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE CONSERVATION SERVICE & • Lighting maintenance • Retrofitting of active environmen- • Replacement glass doors / panels tal control equipment ACCESSORIES • Case relocation • Air change testing (site visit with • Case dismantle and reassembly follow-up report) DIVISION • Locks and keys • Monitoring equipment (humidity • Glass repairs (small chips or / temperature / light) OFFERS THE scratches) • Retrofitting of passive humidity • Cleaning equipment equipment FOLLOWING • Replacement door seals • Supply of Art Sorb® / silica gel

SERVICES UPGRADES ADD-ONS AND ACCESSORIES • Showcase refurbishment • Internal display mounts / plinths • Lighting upgrades • Shelving • New or upgraded dress panels • Hanging rails & rods (fabric or paint covered) • Case mover trolleys • Internal case dividers • Glazing suckers - various types • Cleaning equipment

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