MITCHELL HERITAGE LIMITED

VALUES AND APPROACH

With over 25 years’ experience of working within the heritage sector, Mitchell Heritage Ltd provides a high-quality collections care and management service for corporate, public and private collections.

Recognising that every object, collection and historic interior is unique and requires due care and attention, we provide clients with a tailored museum-quality provision, which can be on a short or long-term basis, with an ad hoc or regular commitment, and for a single object or an entire collection.

We are passionate about safeguarding our heritage for the benefit and enjoyment of both present and future generations, making Mitchell Heritage your ideal choice.

MANAGING YOUR COLLECTIONS

Services include:

• Complete loans management and exhibition organisation:

  encompassing loan agreements and schedules; reviewing facilities reports; organising logistics, packing and transportation; valuations, insurance/indemnity, reproduction requests, catalogue and provenance information; approving exhibition layouts, installation methods and interpretation; despatch and receipt procedures, plus all associated CMS updates.

• Accreditation: guidance, preparation and submission including policy and procedure writing for documentation, loans, collections care, acquisition and disposal. All collections managements services will be carried out to SPECTRUM standards and in line with the requirements to achieve Accreditation.
  

• Collections documentation:

  advice, implementation and development of collection management systems; data entry and continuous cataloguing; accessioning, object marking and labelling; location audits; historical and provenance research and due diligence for collections review and rationalisation. 

CARING FOR YOUR COLLECTIONS

Services include:

• Fine art and object courier: acting as an advocate for the collector, museum or artist during all or part of the loan process, including packing, transportation, condition checking and installation/de-installation, to ensure their requirements and wishes are respected by the borrower.

• Incident management: providing advice in incident prevention planning, the production of an Emergency Plan based on the client’s collection and location and associated training as to how to use it in action.

• Training: informative and hands-on sessions in collections care and management looking at such things as handling, storage, display methods, environmental conditions, documentation and labelling, basic cleaning and damage identification and what to do in an emergency.
  

• Heritage supervision: during hospitality events, filming, scaffold build and strike, maintenance work and any other forms of intrusive activities being carried out in a heritage environment.

REVIEWING YOUR COLLECTIONS

Services include:

• Collections review: focussing on areas such as: improved storage and display solutions; objects requiring conservation; environmental conditions and how they can be monitored and improved; preventative conservation methods and how they can be achieved; incident management and prevention; documentation requirements and how to gather and maintain important information; object disposal and best practice
• Due diligence and provenance research: to provide a thorough assessment of a work of art. Whether you are looking to purchase, sell, loan or transfer an artwork to a museum or gallery, it is important to establish its history and identify and assess any gaps.
• Object condition assessments:

  highlighting conservation priorities; suitability for loan and display; condition reports prior to loan with transit, handling and installation specifications.

• Object preparation for loan:

  including preventative conservation, packing and advice on transportation

FRAMING YOUR COLLECTIONS

Services include:

• A personal, professional, bespoke mounting and framing service to both conservation and museum standards for all types of artwork and memorabilia:
  • paintings, including canvas stretching,
  • open and limited edition prints,
  • drawings, watercolours and photographs,
  • comics, newspapers and periodicals,
  • signed shirts and textiles,
  • 3D objects, collectibles and memorabilia.
• A complete collection audit, de-framing and storage service: in answer to review and rationalisation projects.