Moving Five Millennia of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses over 1.5 million works spanning 5,000 years across 17 curatorial departments. When a gallery rotates or a traveling exhibition ships, hundreds of individual objects move—each one requiring completely different handling protocols. A six-ton marble sculpture and a fragile work on paper can be part of the same shipment.

VIP Transport has been the trusted carrier for these moves, handling 500+ works with an impeccable care record.

VIP Transport didn't enter fine art logistics recently. The company has been moving museum collections for four decades—long enough to have handled nearly every type of object a major institution can produce. That experience matters because museum work isn't about having a climate-controlled truck. It's about knowing that a courier needs to ride in the cargo hold for a loan between institutions. It's about understanding that the crate for a painting isn't the same as the crate for a gilded frame—even if they're traveling together.

By the time The Met needed a partner who could handle the full spectrum of their collection, VIP already had the fleet, the crating shop, the trained handlers, and the institutional knowledge to support 17 departments without skipping a beat. The relationship has grown from initial exhibition support to preferred carrier status for gallery rotations, inter-museum loans, and collection storage.