How Museums Protect Masterpieces in Ways Most Visitors Never Notice

When art travels, the most valuable part of the journey may be how uninteresting it looks from the outside. Custom museum crates are engineered to control temperature, humidity, vibration, and shock, but their exterior may resemble ordinary commercial freight. That plainness is a kind of camouflage. A crate that announces its importance can attract the wrong attention, while one that looks routine can pass through logistics with less curiosity.