The Present Situation and Development of Glass in Museum Display Cabinet

The current situation and development of glass display cabinets are the core “products” of museums, and every museum is willing to show the most historical and artistic collections to the public. When these collections are separated from the warehouse with a better preservation environment, they will enter the exhibition hall space that welcomes a huge number of visitors every day. Because of the diversity of collections in Chinese museums, relatively fragile porcelain, calligraphy and painting, bamboo slips, various organic cultural relics and small cultural relics occupy a large number, so they basically need to be displayed in the exhibition cabinet.

Exhibition cabinets are the main exhibition equipment in the exhibition hall of museums (except for immovable cultural relics such as sites and ancient buildings) . The safety, protection and display of the display cabinet play a decisive role in the safety of cultural relics during the exhibition and the presentation of the display effect. Exhibition cabinets occupy a large amount of space in the exhibition hall. Exhibition designers hope that exhibition cabinets will be integrated into the overall exhibition design, and then ignore the existence of exhibition cabinets, so that all the visual focus of the audience after entering the exhibition hall is on cultural relics. Under the influence of this design concept, the transparent characteristics of glass can be brought into full play, the box body and exterior decoration of exhibition cabinets become smaller and smaller, and glass occupies the main part of the surface of exhibition cabinets. Then the display cabinet glass will assume the responsibility of safety, protection, display and other important functions of the display cabinet.