The museum has a nice scroll housing system. While some scrolls are housed in traditional paulownia wood boxes, others are stored in archival metal edge boxes with ethafoam cradles that support the rolled scroll.
They make the cradles for the box interior by perforating blocks of ethafoam with this apparatus, then cutting the perforated foam squares in half. Super efficient!
Up in the thangka section of the Tibet gallery, there is a fun chart that lists/explains the attributes of peaceful and wrathful deities. Visitors can refer to the chart, then decode the imagery on the thangkas in the adjacent case.
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