Question about glass for fine art print

[CathyA]

I have several prints from my favorite wildlife artist. They've always had that conservation glass on it, which mutes reflections to sort of a white haze, as opposed to reflecting obvious other things. Supposedly though, the further away from the print it is applied, it may cause too much muting. Well, I had heard that museum glass is the best for getting rid of reflections and it's VERY expensive. But I wanted the best for this print. So I had a very good art gallery put it on....especially after one person there raved about the lack of reflection in it. Well, I hate it. It reflects everything....and in funky colors.
The more I read up on museum glass, the more I realized that it's for absolute clarity of the image, and NOT reflection control. Bummer. I will take it back and have the less expensive, but more acceptable glass put on it.
I'm hoping that they'll at least give me some credit, since this was a large piece of glass and they could use it for other smaller pieces. What do you think?
Have you ever used "museum glass" and had very little reflection? What would be reasonable to ask of them? It was probably my ignorance, but they did show me an illustration piece that compared 3 types of glass and the museum glass had no reflections......and the head guy told me he likes it because reflections "ruin the whole experience."

I know having this type of thing probably isn't "simple living", but it's my splurge, and they will only increase in value, and it's something to give my children eventually......and the images are stunning, and remind me how incredible nature is.

[ToomuchStuff]

I was never told about the glass providing no reflections, what I was told was it provided protection from fading. Years ago I had some family documents and pictures, restored/saved, and used them to fill the house. They had to stabilize a couple of frames (old high German baptismal certificates), but put special glass in them to prevent the documents from fading.
I think I will go with regular glass on some of my regular, limited edition prints, as I like them, but they are prints, not like the original painting I have from an artist friend, that was the mother of one of my earliest crushes.

[CathyA]

Thanks TMS. I have always used "conservation glass", which protects the print from UV light just as well as the museum glass and blunts reflections considerably better.....and is 1/3 the cost of museum glass. Our house is so open with lots of windows, so there's really no place where there is no reflection. I know there is no glass that can stop reflections completely, but the guy there made me think the museum glass had less reflection than the conservation glass. I'm guessing they'll be fair, but interactions like this always cause high anxiety in me. :( I wear anti-reflective coating on my glasses because I'm just too bugged by reflections........
Yeah....sometimes I feel stupid thinking limited edition prints are so important, since they're only valuable because the number of them has been artificially limited.

[iris lilies]

Thanks TMS. I have always used "conservation glass", which protects the print from UV light just as well as the museum glass and blunts reflections considerably better.....and is 1/3 the cost of museum glass. Our house is so open with lots of windows, so there's really no place where there is no reflection. I know there is no glass that can stop reflections completely, but the guy there made me think the museum glass had less reflection than the conservation glass. I'm guessing they'll be fair, but interactions like this always cause high anxiety in me. :( I wear anti-reflective coating on my glasses because I'm just too bugged by reflections........
Yeah....sometimes I feel stupid thinking limited edition prints are so important, since they're only valuable because the number of them has been artificially limited.
Who know, ths prints may or may not go up in value, but why does that matter? If you enjoy them during your lifetime, that what it is about.

I woildnt count on your children wanting them, but again, it doesn't matter.

[CathyA]

You're right IL.