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RFID leaps from the warehouse to the art museum

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 in Library

Galleries are tagging collections to improve inventory control, security, and the total customer experience

After leaving a museum, you may think you are an expert on everything from painting to sculpture, but there are a lot of artifacts that you passed right by. It wasn’t that you went too fast and skipped over some unattractive pieces, many of the items you missed were out of sight, behind the walls in storage.

When the museum needs to find a particular piece of artwork for a special exhibition or to loan to another museum, the piece has to be manually located by searching the museum’s – often vast – racks and storerooms.

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