Artcare™
Artcare™ products by Nielsen Bainbridge offer industry-leading protection for art and photos. Only Artcare™ products contain patented micro-chambers that proactively trap and neutralize harmful gases that can cause fading, yellowing and deterioration.
A unique combination of zeolites and buffers traps and neutralizes oxidizing gases, other pre-acidic gases and harmful byproducts—giving Artcare boards the ability to actively protect art and photographs against attack by external pollutants and internal vices. Artcare™ stops air pollution in its tracks and keeps it away from your photograph or artwork. The result is a framed piece that stays forever young.
Backed by extensive scientific testing, Artcare™ technology is trusted by many of the world’s leading museums and archives, including the Library of Congress, to protect historic artifacts and documents.
Artcare™ Products
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Artcare™ Matboard A vast spectrum of colors and specialty finishes infused with patented Artcare™ technology offer industry-leading preservation and beauty. |
Artcare™ Foamboard Featuring Artcare technology for long-lasting protection, this line offers a opaque, lightly textured surface papers that eliminate show-through in soft white or black colors, ideal for floating applications. |
Scientifically Proven Protection
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Proven by Scientists Backed by extensive scientific testing, Artcare technology is trusted by many of the world’s leading museums and archives to actively protect historic artifacts and documents. |
Proactively Protects A unique combination of zeolites and buffers trap and neutralize oxidizing gases, other pre-acidic gases and harmful byproducts—giving Artcare boards the ability to actively protect art and photographs against attack by external pollutants and internal vices. Artcare stops air pollution in its tracks and keeps it away from your photograph or artwork. The result is a framed piece that stays forever young. |
Trusted Worldwide Artcare is the product of choice for priceless historic artifacts. Museums and archives around the world rely on Artcare to protect important art and documents—including George Washington’s last will and testament and relics from the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
Surpasses Standards Bainbridge audits every production lot to ensure conformance to industry standards for preservation and permanence, including fade and bleed resistance; pure, virgin alpha cellulose pulp; absence of contamination; and presence of a buffer reserve. In addition, Bainbridge Artcare mat and mount boards are the ONLY preservation products that feature the proven zeolite MicroChamber technology. As a result, Artcare boards meet AND exceed all established standards and requirements for preservation matting and mounting. |
Research on Zeolites and Artcare™ Technology
Performance Evaluation of 4-ply Boards Containing Calcium Carbonate and Zeolites
By Cindy Connelly Ryan, Library of Congress, Preservation Research and Testing Division
Getty Study Validates Artcare Technology
By John F.D.Taft, Décor Magazine
Zeolite Molecular Traps and Their Use in Preventative Conservation
By Siegfried Rempel
Case Studies
Artcare™ is the product of choice for priceless historic artifacts. Museums and archives around the world rely on Artcare™ to protect important art and documents—including George Washington’s last will and testament and relics from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
