Peterborough, Ontario
Rope stanchion rental in Peterborough
Rope stanchions, velvet ropes and printed sign frames for hire in Peterborough and the Kawarthas, delivered to museums, galleries and exhibition halls.
For hire in Peterborough
What you can rent
Rental prices
Stanchion rental prices in Peterborough
Posts + Ropes
Gold post + velvet rope
Price per post, with its velvet rope
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Posts + Belts
Black post + retractable belt
Price per post, with its retractable belt
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Delivery, setup and collection are available and quoted on their own lines. The final price is confirmed in your quote.
What Peterborough hires
A step back from the piece, without spoiling the view.
A gallery or a museum hires a line for a different reason from almost anyone else. Nobody is queuing; the job is to keep a visitor a pace away from a canoe, a painting or a case of objects, while letting them see it as if the line were not there. So the equipment has to be quiet and handsome — a polished post and a velvet rope — and it has to be placed so the rope sits in front of the piece rather than across the view of it. A touring exhibition adds a second problem: the layout changes with every show, and the posts have to follow it.
A rope that sits below the view
Posts and rope stand at about waist height, so a visitor looks over them at the piece rather than past them.
A finish chosen against the room
Chrome in a white gallery, gold beside timber and old plaster, black posts with gold finials where the walls are dark.
Labels on the same line
Sign frames carry a caption, a do-not-touch panel or a route arrow beside the rope, printed for the show.
Where we deliver
Peterborough and out into the Kawarthas.
Exhibitions here move between the museums in the city, the university on the river and smaller galleries in the lake towns, and each space sets rules about how equipment comes through its doors. Delivery, placing the rope lines and collection are costed one by one, so a curator with an installation team can take the posts at the loading door and place them to the drawing.
- Peterborough
- Lakefield
- Selwyn
- Bridgenorth
- Ennismore
- Buckhorn
- Millbrook
- Cavan Monaghan
- Otonabee–South Monaghan
- Norwood
- Havelock
- Keene
Deliveries go to the galleries and halls where Peterborough shows its collections:
- the museum beside the lift lock on the canal
- the art gallery by the lake in the city
- the university halls and library on the river
- the heritage houses and small museums around the county
- the exhibition building at the fairgrounds
- the theatres and civic halls downtown
Send the layout of the show with each piece marked, and the rope lines are counted against the objects rather than against the square footage.
Worth asking
What a curator usually asks first.
- What is the price of renting rope stanchions in Peterborough?
- A gold post with velvet rope is $19 a day, $29 for three days and $39 for a week, and a black post with retractable belt costs the same. An exhibition usually sits on the weekly rate, repeated for as long as the show hangs. Delivery, placing the posts around the pieces and collection are each quoted as extra lines.
- How far back should a rope keep visitors?
- It depends on the object and on the lender, and the distance is usually written into the loan agreement rather than chosen on site. Tell us what it is and the posts are spaced so the rope holds that line at every corner, including the ones visitors cut when they step round a case.
- Which post finish suits a gallery?
- Chrome disappears against white walls and modern cases; gold sits well beside timber, brass fittings and older interiors; black with gold finials is the choice when the room is dark and the lighting is on the work. Velvet rope comes in red, black, white, navy and green, and a quiet colour is usually right, because the rope should not compete with the exhibit.
- Can the rope lines be rearranged when the show changes?
- Yes. Rope clips on and off the posts, so a layout can be taken apart and rebuilt around a new set of objects without anything else being sent. If a gallery hangs several shows across one hire, say so on the brief and the count is set for the largest of them.
- Can you supply caption and do-not-touch panels?
- Yes. Sign frames stand beside the rope and take printed panels, so a caption, a route arrow or a request to keep hands off can sit on the same line as the posts. Panels are produced for the order, so the text and any artwork go in with the brief.