Artcare

Nielsen Bainbridge Artcare™ products 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.

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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.

Mountboard

Rigid, archival  mounting paper  features patented Artcare technology to capture damaging gases which may enter through the back of the frame.  Combined with Artcare matboard creates an envelope of protection.

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.

AgeDefying Protection

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q:What causes artwork to degrade?

A:Natural and man-made pollutants and acidic gases in our everyday environment, as well as by-products of the artwork’s natural aging.

Q:How does Artcare work?

A:Microscopic molecular traps built into each Artcare product capture and chemically lock up molecules of pollutants and gases, preventing them from reaching and damaging the artwork.

Q:Doesn’t 100% rag offer time proven protection?

A:Properly manufactured rag paper, like all alpha-cellulose papers, provides high levels of permanence, so it doesn’t harm artwork. However, they do not actively protect artwork against pollutants and gases. Alpharag Artcare , however, offers 100% protection.

Q:Don’t buffers neutralize air pollution?

A:No, buffers don’t react with pollutant gases.

Q:If acids are trapped in the matboard, aren’t they being held right against the artwork?

A:No, the Artcare molecular traps are “hollow” structures that hold acid gases inside their pores, keeping them away from the artwork.

Q:How do I explain Artcare to my customers?

A:Simply tell your customers you are giving them the highest level of archival protection available today, proven by the Library of Congress and the Getty Conservation Institute.