SmallCorp recently provided 40 cases for The Brooklyn Museum’s Gateway Gallery, a permanent exhibition featuring many of the collection’s most valuable treasures. Among the cases were a fourteen foot tall “Buddha Tower” and three cases featuring SPD SmartGlass, which protects sensitive objects from UV damage using a radical new technology. SmartGlass switches instantly from tinted […]
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Egyptian Book of the Dead at Brooklyn Museum
In April we installed a thirty foot long archival case in the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian Gallery to house an early version of the Book of the Dead. The Book of the Dead was intended to assist the deceased in the afterlife and comprised a collection of hymns, spells and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles […]