At Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015 130 paintings were moved or taken down from a gallery wall so they can be carefully packed and stored or crated and loaned to another institution.
The public could then watch employees examine, photograph and conserve artworks that ranged from a 1904 portrait of “Aurora Leigh” by John White Alexander to a dark contemporary triptych titled “Midgard,” painted by Anselm Kiefer in the early 1980s.