Wall finishes for photo galleries

In the next year the V&A will open new photo galleries showing works
from the permanent collection on a three monthly rotation. The turn
around period between the rotations will be quite short, and  the
walls will be repainted with an acrylic based emulsion paint.
Normally three or four weeks elapse before any works are hung on the
walls, to allow for any off gassing of material from paints and
finishes. Once the new gallery rotation is in place then this time
span will be greatly reduced.

Does anyone know of any likely problems with photographic materials
interacting with acrylic based emulsion paints? All of the photos
will be housed in frames, and matted with Conservation quality
board. It is proposed to use Filmoplast to seal the glass mount and
backing board together.

If anyone has any information, or knows about any articles dealing
with the subject, then I would be very grateful for references etc.

Mike Wheeler
Paper Conservation Department
Victoria and Albert Museum

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 11:18
                  Distributed: Friday, August 22, 1997
                       Message Id: cdl-11-18-013
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