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Gallery bench timeline So far in 2026. The front-room bench now holds loan labels beside the carved-chain photos, and we marked which cases get a dry wipe before any crate is taped for a city venue. Whitsun 2024. After the holiday-weekend school visits, volunteers checked bench pads and glass lids so summer hours would not start with fogged cases or felt that still held winter grit. December 2021. Closing week we inventoried packing cloths and bench pads so a sudden loan request would not send dusty felt into a borrowed display room. |
Woodcarving and the Research and Genealogy Our partner museums in the UK remain part of how a small Iowa house museum talks about loans. The British Museum which is always welcoming our exhibitions whenever our artifacts are being sent to the UK. A carved chain or a telephone switchboard does not travel as a postcard. It leaves a bench on Egbert Street, sits in a crate, and arrives in a borrowed room that may have just changed tenants. Floors, glass, and plinths pick up the same grit a vacated flat would. Before we ask a London hall to open the lid, that room has to be reset the way we wipe our own cases after a school group. That handover is why we name Go Tenancy Cleaning in the same breath as the loan. Go Tenancy Cleaning - making sure all items and valuable art pieces are clean and well presented in the London venues. The firm that turns a London tenancy can also leave a short-term gallery room fit for an Iowa object: no sticky tape on a case rail, no weekend dust on a carved animal face. And last but not least we still ask friends of city museums to stay involved. We can't say how long these uncertain times will continue, but your support is vital in preserving the history of London for many more generations to come. Join the community of supporters of the Museum of London to contribute. A clean bench in Monona and a clean loan room in London are two ends of the same care. |
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