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Museum Division

Guardians of national treasures

Gander & White is the trusted partner for museums and institutions, guaranteeing the utmost care for nations’ most precious collections. Our comprehensive suite of services includes international air and sea freight, temperature-controlled warehousing, and museum-grade packing. Our expertise spans art installation, exhibition management, and project coordination, and we ensure seamless operations by complying with UK and US Indemnity standards. We arrange and oversee the international shipping of museum objects and works of art, coordinating couriers and facilitating their transfer through customs with time-sensitive clearance. We also offer clients tailored insurance options, dedicated art specification vehicles for UK and European transport, and facilities like viewing rooms and a conservation studio for environmental monitoring and reporting.

Crate Fabrication

We offer a broad range of solutions to protect art in transit and provide crate designs for exceptional objects. All materials comply with current ISPM 15 standards.

UK and European Road Transport

Our fleet of art specification vehicles, equipped with climate control, air ride suspension and tail lifts are fully alarmed and tracked by satellite technology. Museum couriers can be accommodated on board. We provide dedicated vehicle services and regular consolidated road transport throughout the UK and Europe.

Art Installation Services

Gander & White’s Technicians have the skills and experience to handle and install diverse artworks competently and professionally.

Temperature and Humidity Controlled High-Security Warehouses

Our warehouses are custom-designed for the storage of fine art and cultural items with 24-hour surveillance and state-of-the-art fire and security systems. We provide international museum standards of temperature and humidity control, with environmental monitoring and reporting.

Viewing Room and Conservation Studio

Our flagship art facilities offer our clients a private gallery-style viewing room which can be utilised for photography, installation and display layouts. We also have a separate studio which can be used for conservation treatment.

Environmental

We can provide clients with environmental impact data to aid calculation of the carbon footprint of individual projects.

Insurance

We have undertaken exhibition transport, collection storage and art installation for many leading museums and galleries worldwide. Our appointment to the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Framework Agreements demonstrates our compliance with the highest museum practices.

We advise clients on museum practice and international registration standards and handle all aspects of exhibition management including packing, air and sea freight, customs procedures, airport supervision and installation. Our skilled technical teams operate a fleet of specialist vehicles in the UK and Europe, offering collections and deliveries to Government Indemnity Standards.

We can arrange all risk transit insurance for artworks that we have packed and shipped through our network of fine art agents. Insurance for artworks in storage at our facilities is also possible.

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Museum Division Capabilities

Ways we can help
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Museum Crating

Bespoke Full & Semi museum spec crates.

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Viewing Rooms

All our locations are equipped with private viewing rooms for viewing, cataloguing or conservation work.

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Sustainability

We aim to be the industry leaders in sustainability. The entire group is now two years carbon certified by Planet Mark and active members of the GCC, as we strive to put sustainability at the core of everything we do.

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Tarmac Supervision

Full tarmac supervision services offered to allow you to witness load your cargo.

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Registrar Services

We maintain accurate records of museum collections ensuring compliance with all legal requirements.

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Storage

From shared spaces to dedicated rooms in a multude of sizes from small to large, we have all your storage needs covered. All facilities monitored 24 hours a day.

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Customs Clearance Services

Whether it’s a travelling exhibition or a single piece coming on loan our in house teams will be able to advise and action on all your customs clearance needs. Our UK facilities are fully bonded and authorised consignors / consignees allowing us to clear on site.

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Bespoke online Inventory Platform

Our in house inventory management system allows you to view what you have in store twenty four hours a day with photos attached if requested.

Recent Projects

Miami Basel

We successfully partnered with Art Basel in Miami Beach (ABMB), the largest contemporary art fair in the United States, leveraging our international network and expertise to manage transportation, installation, and logistical challenges.

National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery came to us as a reliable partner and an Approved Fine Art Agent under the NPG Framework Agreement to carefully pack and store approximately 1,500 artworks during the 3-year, £35.5m refurbishment period.

Glorious Gainsborough

Our work often brings us into contact with the works of some of the ‘greats’ of art history. In June 2019 we handled masterpieces by the great British painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788). The exhibition, Masters of the Golden Age

Munnings Art Museum

In Spring 2019, we had the pleasure of delivering the works of celebrated British painter Alfred Munnings for an exhibition at the Munnings Art Museum at Castle House, his former family home in Essex.

The Wiseman Group

The Wiseman Group (TWG) is one of the most iconic interior design firms in the San Francisco Bay area, priding itself on its commitment to creating beautiful, sophisticated, and innovative rooms that reflect each client’s needs.

The Fine Art Group

A young entrepreneurial collector working with The Fine Art Group’s advisory team to develop his contemporary art collection, was seeking a 2-year loan of $4 million against his collection.

Watts Gallery

We were appointed to transport and install an exhibition of the work of Christina Rossetti and related artwork by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Leeds Castle

We were appointed to transport and install a unique 15th century monumental artwork, the Battel Hall Retable, to Leeds Castle, UK.

Other Sectors

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Art Fairs

Contemporary to Old Masters, sculpture to mobile. Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere.

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Corporate Collection Management

Contemporary to Old Masters, sculpture to mobile. Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere.

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Galleries & Auction Houses

Contemporary to Old Masters, sculpture to mobile. Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere.

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Interior Design

Contemporary to Old Masters, sculpture to mobile. Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere.

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Modern & Contemporary

Contemporary to Old Masters, sculpture to mobile. Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere.

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Private Clients and International Relocations

Contemporary to Old Masters, sculpture to mobile. Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere.