January, 2010

Happy New Year from everyone at M&M! 2010 will be an exciting year for Methods & Materials. 2009 ended with many unique projects.

Tornado Train Replica travels to its permanent home

Methods & Materials loaded and moved a full-scale wood replica of the Tornado, one of the first two locomotives to operate in North Carolina beginning in 1840, from Raleigh to Hamlet. The City of Hamlet, with the North Carolina Department of Transportation selected M&M to move this state treasure. The 100-mile, two-hour journey was done on a Conestoga flatbed with cranes assisting with the loading and unloading at each location.

Bernar Venet's Steel Sculptures – on the move from San Diego, California to Houston, Texas

M&M coordinated the loading and shipping of five oversized-load trucks and installed ten monumental steel works by Bernar Venet in Hermann Park in Houston, TX under the auspices of the McClain Gallery and Texan French Alliance for the Arts. The exhibition opened in late 2009 and will continue through October 2010.

King Tut Tour

Methods & Materials is responsible for the rigging and installation of the large-scale artifacts in the traveling exhibition King Tut: The Golden King and Great Pharaohs. This exhibition has been shown at two venues to date, with four more through 2013. Methods & Materials will accompany the tour to conduct installations and deinstallations.

We wish you peace, health and prosperity in 2010.

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