About Museum Board

The type of board I use for my art is a 4-ply Museum Board made from 100% cotton fiber which is acid-free and pH neutral, making it ideal for both art and art preservation purposes.  The reason it’s called Museum Board is because it is the preferred archival material used by most museums and galleries around the world.

It not only meets the strict Library of Congress Standards for image permanence, but provides an excellent and durable surface for all sorts of art media, particularly oil Pastels.  For those not familiar with the oil pastels, they are in essence hardened sticks of oil paint.  I prefer mineral-based Holbein oil pastels which are in my experience the best oil pastels in the world for consistency and colour permanence.
 

 

Not to be confused with powdery chalk pastels, oil pastels are opaque and cover surfaces almost as well as oil paint, except there is no drying time required as there is with oil paints.  I may go into the properties of oil paints and oil pastels in more detail later.