Modular plexiglass displays?

Hello all,

Does anyone have any experience with modular displays? That is, displays that can be disassembled and reassembled into different shapes and sizes using different combinations of stock panels. Plexiglass would be nice, or a plexi-wood combination. Security is not an issue.

Any shared information or experience would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Stacy Ciufo University of Massachusetts

When the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, moved into its new facility in the mid seventies, we used a lot of plexiglass and glass panels, particularly for the third floor displays of early Western Canadian history. I think Lorne Render (who is now somewhere in western Montana(?)) was heading the project.

After we learned how to modify designers' drawings to ensure the heavier sheets stayed on the walls and how to tighten corner brackets enough to keep sheets of glass together but not so tight that the glass cracked under the tension of the screws, putting up exhibits became a fairly simple process. The sheets could have been used to apply lettering, but as I remember we screened 'labels' directly onto the opaque surfaces of the resulting 'display cases.'

The completed project looked clean but it also shimmered with its own presence and viewers sometimes had to move their heads and bodies around to see the artifacts behind the glass.

Daniel Deyell Saskatoon, SK