In a world in which it seems like most of the stuff we're "moving" and "storing" is virtual (files, digital photos, e-mails, etc.), I forget how difficult and expensive it is to move physical objects. As objects for the big show at my museum are being moved in with painstaking care, I'm making my own moving plans. It turns out that moving a tiny studio apartment worth of furniture is a fortune. Having never moved more than a few miles, I had no idea how much places charge to take things longer distances.
It's hard to imagine, then, what it costs to move the art objects arriving at the museum from England, Brazil, India, Japan, Portugal, China...In this case, each collection sending any pieces send a courier, basically a trained escort, to make sure the piece arrives and is installed safely. There are stipulations in the loan contracts for some pieces that say what kind of light should be used, what kind of case the object should be in, sometimes even how close by a guard needs to be.
So, I suppose in contrast, my own move sounds fairly tame. No couriers for my couch, and no installation requirements for my architectural salvage artwork.
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