Company type | Private limited company |
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Industry | Art logistics |
Founded | 25 September 1972 |
Headquarters | London, England |
Area served | Worldwide |
Services | Art transport, art storage, art installation |
Revenue | £15.75 million (2015)[1] |
£1.21 million (2015)[1] | |
Number of employees | 131 (2015)[1] |
Parent | FIH group plc |
Website | www |
Momart is a British company specialising in the storage, transportation, and installation of works of art. A major proportion of their business is maintaining often delicate artworks in a secure, climate-controlled environment. The company maintains specialist warehouse facilities adapted for this task. Momart's clients include the Royal Academy of Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Buckingham Palace. The company received considerable media attention in 2004 when a fire spread to one of their warehouses from an adjacent unit, destroying the works in it, including works by Young British Artists such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, including Emin's 1995 piece Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995. On 5 March 2008 Momart was taken over by Falkland Islands Holdings for £10.3 million,[2] of which £4.6 million was in cash, £2.5 million was in shares and £3.2 million was deferred consideration.[clarification needed][3]