List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter 1. What is a Preparator?
Chapter 2. Object Handling: A Philosophical Approach
Chapter 3. Preparation in Action: Pack it, but don’t touch it: A case study of the trope
Meredith Weimer, Associate Collections Registrar, Portland Museum of Art
Chapter 4. Prep Management
Chapter 5. Preparation in Action: New Glass Now
Warren Bunn II, Collections and Exhibitions Manager, The Corning Museum of Glass
Chapter 6. Two-Dimensional Object Preparation
Chapter 7. Preparation in Action: Mounting Scrolls for Exhibition
Donia Conn, Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
Chapter 8. Three-Dimensional Object Preparation
Chapter 9. Preparation in Action: Simple Fosshape Supports for Textiles
Kirsten Schoonmaker, Textile Conservator
Chapter 10. Preparation in Action: The Object Directs the Process: Creating Ethafoam Cradles for the Field Museum’s Vertebrate Paleontological Collection
Adrienne Stroup, Collections Assistant, The Field Museum
Chapter 11. Installation Of Objects
Chapter 12. Preparation in Action: The Preparator at the Stone Quarry Art Park
Emily Zaengle, Executive Director, Stone Quarry Art Park
Chapter 13. Practical Basics For Lighting, Audio, And Video
Chapter 14. Preparator’s Resources

About the Author

As a faculty member and the program coordinator for Museum Studies at Syracuse University, Andrew Saluti engages in consistent collaboration with the diverse community voices and cultural heritage-collecting institutions that populate both academic and professional sectors of the Central New York region. Together with his colleagues, faculty, and students Saluti considers equity, inclusivity, and accessibility core and vital aspects to museum practice and pedagogy. This commitment is reflected in the broad scope of teaching, mentoring, curricular design and professional practice that he facilitates, as well as through an ever-expanding network of emerging and established museum professionals from around the globe.

Before stepping into the role of Program Coordinator for Museum Studies at Syracuse University, Saluti was the chief curator of exhibitions, programs and education for the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries and the assistant director of the Syracuse University Art Galleries and Collections. He continues to be an active member of numerous museum boards and advisory committees. Saluti's dedication to and experience with museum governance and leadership, in concert with almost 20 years of professional practice in both archival and object-based collecting institutions, informs ongoing research and pedagogy that comprises both curatorship and collections, with specific interest and focus on the practical installation and design, as well as the role of institutional responsibility, stewardship, and sustainability of academic collection building.