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Topic: Movie Poster Storage
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Randy Stankey
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Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 02-10-2001 10:53 AM
The way museum archives store large documents, such as posters, is called MYLAR ENCAPSULATION. It's a fancy-sounding name but it's really simple in reality.Find yourself some large sheets of clear Mylar. It has to be Mylar. Other plastics give off polyvilyl cloride (PVC) vapors which will destroy the paper. Get enough to cover both sides of the posters and leave a border around the edge of about 1 to 2 inches. (approx. 3 to 5 cm) Lay a sheet down on a table (or clean floor) and use double-faced tape to make a border around the poster on 3 sides of the Mylar rectangle. Place the top sheet on top and stick it down so there are no wrinkles. What you now have is a giant envelope you can slide the poster into. Once the poster is in, seal up the last side. When you want to hang it, you can use the border of the Mylar to stick tape (or tacks) to without hurting the poster inside. Some museums even go so far as to put metal grommets into the border for hanging. Storage should be done by laying the poster flat, of course. Keep them in a cool, dark room. Humidity control is a good idea, too. At least get a humidity guage. Museums usually do this by keeping large posters and pictures in drawers. If you have seen a blue print cabinet with the giant drawers, you know what I'm talking about. Often they have humidity control built right into the cabinet. I wouldn't get all THAT fancy, though. I'd just encapsulate them and store them flat, under the bed. If you can come across a blue print drawer somewhere, like a flea market, etc. then I would snag it.
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