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April 26, 2019St. Joseph, MO |  By: Ryan Elliot

Pony Express Museum gets artwork face lift

The Pony Express Museum in St. Joseph has completed a restoration and preservation project involving its artwork.
The project was to install new glass to cover the museum's artwork. Pony Express Museum Executive Director Cindy Daffron says the new glass has benefited the appearance of the paintings.

"The one outcome that I really didn't think about was that normal glass that we had - museum glass - has a tinge color in it.  So when we put in the optimum glass, which no longer allows static electricity, you can cut it with a knife, you can beat it with a hammer, you can do anything with it, but the colors radiate through.  So like green is green."

Daffron adds the change in the artwork can change the perspective of guests at the museum.

"You can kind of learn that some of the dust covers and some of the matting had gotten really old on the wall, so some of those paintings - like people never ever said anything to me - and he took and rematted them and put the new dustcover on and they were mounted differently with the glass.  Changing it up is then what allows people to see something differently when they come in.  So change is always good and we're just really proud to make this change to be something that happened at the Pony Express Museum."