Museums

Museums

Photography, retouching, restoration and archival imaging for museum collections

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Imagery production for museum collections

Museum imagery has many different roles to play. It is essential curators preparing exhibitions, scholars publishing research, conservators tracking condition and audiences engaging digitally. It must be faithful to the object, prepared to institutional standards and built to last.

Built to institutional standards

Where institutions follow published preservation standards, we work to them. Where clients are setting their own internal benchmarks for archival quality, file naming and metadata, we help define them.

Scholarship and stewardship

Curators and conservators bring a precision and dedication to their work that we share. Our imaging specialists understand that a museum’s collection is held in trust, and that the imagery surrounding it carries the same duty of care.

A global presence to deliver international museum imagery

Our creative bases in London, New York and Hong Kong, alongside our colour hub in South Asia, allow us to serve museums on touring exhibition schedules without thinning the work, and to deliver against immovable opening dates.

Image creation across all museum categories

From antiquities to modern and contemporary collections, paper to paint to three-dimensional works, our specialists bring the same standard to every category. See also our services and our story.

What we deliver for museums

  • Collection photographyFaithful, condition-aware capture of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, antiquities and manuscripts
  • Exhibition photographyInstallation views, hero imagery and detail capture for shows on tour or in residence
  • Premium high-end retouching and colour correctionColour balancing and creative retouching expertise for ultra high-end finishes across all media output requirements
  • Digital restorationRestoration of historic photographs, prints, manuscripts and ephemera
  • Catalogue and publication designEditorial design for exhibition catalogues, scholarly publications and limited editions

Please get in touch and tell us about the collection, the exhibition or the archive, and we will tailor a workflow to it

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