Security Guard Services for Art Gallery & Museums

Art Gallery, Museums and Exhibits Security

Museums, galleries and exhibits contain priceless cultural treasures that are of great interest to the general public, scholars, and criminals. Considering the price of artifacts and objects d’art, both financially and culturally, is any wonder that institutions are investing in their security to protect these valuables from carless visitors, natural disasters, and thieves?

To visitors, security guards are a helpful guide, providing directions, keeping groups appraised of facility etiquette, and watching out for suspicious individuals. To criminals, they act as a powerful deterrent that, when paired with other modes of security, make theft or vandalism an unappealing prospect.

The Art of Securing the Priceless

Museum security is a kind of art form unto itself. A way to all at once create safety and accessibility. To bring us as close as possible to inspiration while preventing miscreants from stealing it.

Museum security is a kind of art form unto itself. A way to all at once create safety and accessibility. To bring us as close as possible to inspiration while preventing miscreants from stealing it. To make a work of art difficult to steal, while simultaneously facilitating a profound connection between the masterpiece and its beholders requires planning, top of the line technology, and a dash of ingenuity.

Museum Security Technology

How can Security Base Group Inc. protect your art gallery, museum or exhibit?

1. Vibration Sensors

Small and wireless, vibration sensors placed behind a painting detect even the lightest of finger taps. Sensors can be oriented to a variety of purposes, such as acting as backup to a main system or detecting individuals coming through the wall.. A tripped alarm signals the control room (or a cell phone or pager), describes the problem, and can provide a map of the site and an electronic photo of the piece of art.

2. Eye Hooks

To hang a piece of art, eye hooks on the back of the frame attach to “L” hooks on the museum wall. At the bottom center of the painting, a metal boiler plate screws into both the frame and the wall. You’d have to work pretty hard to wrench the painting away. On the West Coast, where earthquakes can torque paintings affixed in such a way, museums use interlocking connections that offer some give, while providing the same level of security.

3. Inventory Numbers

Many priceless works have inventory numbers written on the canvas back and recorded in a registrar’s catalog. The catalogs keep data about a canvas’s thread count, highly magnified photographs of a painting’s details and other proofs of authenticity.

4. Glazing

Glazing protects some paintings and is commonly used with objects d’art shown on pedestals. This technique can protect the integrity of paintings and sculptures from human interaction and even minor environmental hazards, but it is seldom used, since artists and scholars prefer as few modifications as possible be made to the art.

5. Motion-Detection Devices

Motion detection devices can either alert security or simply make a beeping noise when individuals cross the threshold, deterring both careless visitors and thieves from getting too close to the art.

6. Low Rail

Often underestimated, natural barriers like a low rail or elevated floor serve as a powerful means of directing traffic without intruding upon the artistic experience.

7. Environmental Sensors

Environmental sensors for fire, temperature changes and other hazards are used to complement theft-deterrent sensors. These devices are primarily used for items on pedestals, but work for paintings, too.

8. Fire Alarms, Sprinklers & Temperature Controls

Fire alarms, sprinklers and temperature controls are necessary in any exhibit space. Outside of extremely high end galleries, however you won’t see anything fancy like sealing off rooms and sucking the oxygen out, so these measures serve primarily to protect the art from environmental hazards, and not from malicious individuals.

9. Security Guards

Security guards are a vital part of museum security infrastructure, watching all entrances and exits, communicating concerns about suspicious or rowdy visitors to security HQ, and managing crowds in the event of a crisis. Museum security is typically comprised of a team of uniformed security professionals, and a plainclothes supervisor, and is bolstered by a variety of sensors and camera systems throughout the facility.

10. Saturation Motion Detection

Saturation motion detection is the most important technology used in any given exhibit space. Instead of focusing motion detection only on entrances and exits, such as doors and air ducts, it’s most practical to simply flood the room with motion detection. That creates very few “dead spots” for potential thieves to avoid sensors and helps deter “stay behinds”: lurkers who come into the room with a group but remain when others leave.

11. Alarm Windows

Verify that alarm windows are fastened and closed whenever possible, with break sensors on the glass. This is especially important for lower level windows.. As with CCTV, glass-break sensors are secondary to motion detection but still play a critical role, not because they sound an alarm when windows are broken (though that is important), but because they act as redundant security during periods where other systems are not active, for instance when new installations are being set up by facility staff.

12. Closed-Circuit TV Cameras

Closed-circuit TV cameras add another security layer beyond motion detection and glass break sensors, and serve a vital role in facility security. Though cameras can be set up to monitor an entire complex, if budget is a concern, they can instead be used to focus on entrances and exits. By adding another layer to the security infrastructure, you ensure that criminals are further discouraged from targeting your displays, and increase the chance that those who do attempt a crime are caught in the act.

List of security guard duties at art galleries & museums:

Offer friendly and professional security service
Rapidly respond to emergencies
Effectively maintain public order
Ensure the visiting public complies with museum regulations

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Security Guard Services for Art Gallery & Museums

Art Gallery, Museums and Exhibits Security

The Art of Securing the Priceless

Museum security is a kind of art form unto itself. A way to all at once create safety and accessibility. To bring us as close as possible to inspiration while preventing miscreants from stealing it.

Museum Security Technology

How can Security Base Group Inc. protect your art gallery, museum or exhibit?

1. Vibration Sensors

2. Eye Hooks

3. Inventory Numbers

4. Glazing

5. Motion-Detection Devices

6. Low Rail

7. Environmental Sensors

8. Fire Alarms, Sprinklers & Temperature Controls

9. Security Guards

10. Saturation Motion Detection

11. Alarm Windows

12. Closed-Circuit TV Cameras

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