How priceless works of art are shipped, unpacked and hung in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Officials with the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art started planning more than three years ago for their latest attraction, “Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens,” to be transported cross-country in time to commemorate the museum’s 125th anniversary. The exhibit includes works by impressionists Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase.
Motorists unknowingly might have driven past the art collection in January, as it quietly was transported approximately 1,200 miles from its previous location, at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Fla. The paintings were packed with utmost care in 33 specialty boxes, wrapped in poly - a plastic wrap - and suspended with foam, and transported in a 72-by-53-foot fine-art truck, with temperature and humidity controls, additional shocks and inside panels, to which the boxes can be strapped.