Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will research and test environmentally sustainable solutions for art packaging that will appropriately protect cultural heritage objects during transportation, while substantially reducing the museum field’s environmental impact. The initiative will bring together museum and art gallery professionals—art preparators, registrars, collection managers, conservators, and scientists—with an international committee of expert advisors from the fields of engineering, manufacturing, and art packing and shipping. The project will gather current research on sustainable materials and art packing systems, and develop and test alternative systems. The aggregated research and conclusions will be published as a manual for field practitioners on how to design, build, and pack art shipping crates with methods and materials that reduce the carbon footprint and negative environmental impact of art transportation, while providing optimal protection to cultural heritage objects.