A Longtime Mount-Maker at the Met on Preparing the Museum’s Reopening Exhibition

Q&A with Frederick Sager, managing conservation preparator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
How long have you been at the Met?I started in 1980, installing period rooms in the American Wing, including the Frank Lloyd Wright room. After that I helped with the Gubbio studiolo, a Renaissance room; that was a five-year project. In 1995 I was offered a permanent position as a mount-maker and I’ve been doing that ever since.
What was involved in safely shutting your studio down in