Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

At the Museum, the preparators‚—Todd Baldwin, Chris Gorzelnik, Alan Lavery, and Justin Webb‚—are the people who move, frame, pack, mount, install, and deinstall the precious objects in the collections.

The job is both a responsibility and a privilege. Does it ever faze them‚—that, say, the blackware ceramic they're holding, the contemporary art piece they're packing, or the photograph they're framing is irreplaceable?