Museum Vakdagen Magazine 2018

Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc.
2017 marked Dorfman Museum Figures’
60th year of providing ultra Realistic Figures
to the museum community, helping to keep
history alive, dynamic and relevant!
Originally specializing in creating life-size, life-like realistic
figures for museums, DMF has sculpted over 840 heads that
provides us with a mold inventory with which we have (and
can continue to) create thousands of figures for museums,
visitor centers, design /exhibit companies, corporate entities,
and private collectors.
We routinely add new sculpted heads every year to our
inventory, working from historic reference images, or
contemporary photographs, and then cast these in either
vinyl plastic or silicone. We then complete the assembly of
the heads and hands onto our Flexible Foam, Military Man, or
Custom-Crafted body types. Or we may sell our Heads and
Hands individually for retrofitting onto a client’s existing body.
Driven by our client’s needs for display and storage of high
value artifact garments, costumes, uniforms, and clothing,
we developed and launched our second product line,
the artifact appropriate Conservation Forms in 1996.
This comprehensive line of conservationally-sound forms are
made from Ethafoam®, an Oddy-tested, inert polyethylene
foam. These Forms use no glues or adhesives, and are widely
recognized as safe and compatible with artifacts.
We offer a broad line of Conservation Forms at different price
points, including full-bodied Ethafoam® Men and Women
Figures, Dress and Suit Forms, Thin Chest Mounts, stylized featured
and featureless Head Mounts, and our Classic Adjustable
Conservation Forms.
These Forms are covered with 3 artifact-safe stockinette coverings:
the standard white, and the upgraded gray or black. But
we also offer a wider color palette of cover fabrics made of
a blend of 80% nylon and 20% elastane (spandex) to suggest
ethnicity, or to provide a contrasting splash of color for more
contemporary clothing exhibition.
Our Realistic Figures and Conservation Forms have shipped
to over 35 countries worldwide, on five continents. And some
of our Conservation Form products are available exclusively
through PEL (Preservation Equipment Ltd - www.preservationequipment.com)
in the UK, and ProMuseum (http://www.
promuseum.fr) in France, Belgium, and Italy.
www.museumfigures.com
We are continually adding to our line of products. So if you
don’t see what you need, please contact us, and let us know
what we can do for you!
www.museumfigures.com
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