Clear acrylic display cases built to your exact dimensions, with optional bespoke timber bases. The honest middle ground between off-the-shelf catalogue sizes and museum-grade premium pricing — properly bespoke from a small Brighton workshop, fairly priced because we make them ourselves. Get a live price for your dimensions below.
Most acrylic display cases fall into one of two camps. We sit deliberately in the middle — properly made-to-measure, fairly priced because we make them ourselves.
Cheap cases aren’t worth buying. Premium cases aren’t always worth paying for. We make the case that fits your job at the price it should cost.
Enter the internal or external dimensions, pick a thickness, set quantity. Real production pricing for clear cast acrylic, bonded and ready to ship. Excludes VAT and delivery.
Most acrylic display cases out there fall into one of two camps. There are the off-the-shelf catalogue sizes — fine if your object happens to match one of seven standard dimensions, awkward if it doesn’t. And there are the museum-spec bespoke makers — properly custom, but at prices that only stack up if you’re a national collection or a Mayfair gallery.
We sit in the middle. Every case we make is built to the exact dimensions you enter — there’s no ‘closest catalogue size’, no rounding up, no compromising the object to fit a stock cover. But because we make the cases ourselves in a working Brighton workshop, without agencies, subcontractors or middlemen taking a cut, the pricing reflects the actual materials and labour. Nothing else.
That’s why the calculator above shows a real price, not a ‘starting from’ figure. Whatever dimensions you put in, that’s the price for that exact case in clear cast acrylic, ready to bond and ship. No upsell, no ‘contact us for a quote’, no hidden tier you didn’t realise you needed.
Every dimension is yours. A 287mm-wide case for an awkward heirloom, a 1.4-metre case for a museum mannequin, a 90mm cube for a single ceramic — all the same workflow, all priced on the same basis. We don’t round up to the next catalogue size, we don’t charge a ‘bespoke surcharge’, we don’t set a minimum order quantity. One case is fine. Five hundred cases is also fine.
We’re not the cheapest acrylic supplier in the UK and we don’t want to be. Cheap acrylic cases are usually made from extruded acrylic (yellowing, brittle), bonded with mechanical fixings (visible joints, dust-leaky), or assembled overseas to a price (variable quality, long lead times). We use cast acrylic, solvent-bond every joint, and finish the cases in the same building they’re cut in. That costs more than bottom-shelf, less than top-shelf, and gives you a case that actually does the job for years rather than months.
The clear acrylic case is one of the most versatile pieces of museum and exhibition furniture. We make them in every size and at speed when expo deadlines bite.
Display covers and vitrines for county museums, heritage sites and independent galleries. Bonded dust-tight construction, optional timber pedestal bases.
Fast-turnaround case orders for trade shows, exhibition stand builders and event production companies. Stock checked weekly; express 48-hour available.
Clear protective covers for paintings, sculptures, ceramics and installation pieces. Visually almost invisible, protect against dust and casual touch.
Display cases for LEGO builds, scale models, die-cast collections, action figures, signed memorabilia, jewellery and watches.
Protective cases for family heirlooms, antiques, taxidermy, dolls, ceramics and inherited artefacts — for private collectors, antique dealers and estates.
Trophy cases, signed shirt frames, signed ball cases, honours displays and memorabilia cases for clubhouses, stadiums and visitor centres.
Counter showcases for jewellers, watch retailers, fragrance, premium electronics and luxury goods. Clear case, optional sprayed base.
Reception display cases, award cabinets, sponsor displays and branded product showcases for offices, hotels and visitor reception areas.
Trophy displays, honours board cases, achievement cabinets and exhibit displays for primary, secondary, sixth form and university institutions.
The clear acrylic case is the headline — but most museum, retail and exhibition cases sit on a timber base or plinth. We build these in our in-house joinery, alongside the acrylic case, so the whole unit ships together as a single fitted display.
Specify your base when you enquire and we’ll spec it alongside the case quote. Standard options below.
Every case we ship is made to order in our workshop at 11–13 Shaftesbury Place in Brighton. We don’t keep a catalogue, we don’t do mass production, and we don’t outsource. Each case starts with the dimensions you send us, is cut from a single sheet of clear cast acrylic (PMMA), hand-bonded along the eight joints, and finished before it leaves the building.
We use clear cast acrylic (PMMA) for every case we make. Cast acrylic is optically clear, doesn’t yellow with age, holds its surface polish, and is approximately ten times more impact-resistant than glass — which matters for cases that get knocked, brushed, repositioned, packed and unpacked over the course of an exhibition run or a museum installation. Thicknesses available are 3mm, 4mm, 5mm and 10mm; we spec the right thickness for the size of your case based on load and rigidity.
The edges are chemically bonded using solvent welding. The acrylic edges fuse together, creating an almost invisible water-clear seam. No screws, no visible fixings, no gaskets that fail over time. The result is a case that looks like a single folded piece of glass and is dust-tight without anything having to seal it.
Most expo, museum and exhibition work runs to a fixed deadline — the show opens on a specific date and the case has to be there. Our standard production is 5–7 working days from order. For urgent expo and exhibition deadlines, we offer 48-hour express turnaround subject to workshop capacity. Tell us your install date when you enquire and we’ll work back from it.
Smaller cases ship via tracked courier in double-walled cartons. Larger cases ship on the pallet network in foam-lined timber crates. Local Brighton collection is available within 2–3 working days. For museum and high-value installations we can arrange white-glove delivery and on-site positioning.
Any size from small tabletop covers under 100mm cube up to large floor-standing cases over 2 metres in any dimension. Every case is bespoke. The only physical limit is our sheet size of 2050×1520mm per panel — bigger panels can be supplied as multi-piece assemblies.
Standard production 5–7 working days from order. Express turnaround from 48 hours available for urgent expo and exhibition deadlines (subject to workshop capacity). Multi-case projects quoted on programme.
Yes — clear cast acrylic (PMMA) for every case. Optically clear, doesn’t yellow, ~10x more impact resistant than glass. The case body is always clear. The optional timber base can be any colour or wood you like.
Yes. Bases are built in our in-house joinery alongside the case. MDF sprayed any RAL colour, real oak, walnut, ash, or veneered finishes. Specify when you enquire.
Yes — museum vitrines, expo cases, exhibition cases and trade show protection covers are core to our work. Bonded, dust-tight, optional timber bases. Fast turnaround for show deadlines.
Yes — clear acrylic display covers (or ‘art covers’) are one of our most common case types. Protects paintings, sculptures, ceramics, antiques and heirlooms from dust and casual touch, while remaining visually almost invisible.
Chemically solvent-bonded — the acrylic edges fuse together giving a near-invisible seam, far stronger than mechanical joints and entirely dust-tight without gaskets. No screws, no visible fixings.
It uses five inputs: width, depth, height, thickness, and quantity. Based on those, we calculate the production cost of a 5-sided bonded case in clear cast acrylic. The figure on screen is what you’d actually pay per case, excluding VAT and delivery. For unusual geometry, multi-panel assemblies, integrated timber bases or special finishes, send the enquiry and we’ll confirm the final quote within 24 hours.
It’s an estimate that reflects our real production cost — we review each enquiry before confirming. For most simple cases the final quote matches the estimate. For unusual geometry, multi-panel assemblies, integrated bases or special finishes, the final quote may differ — we confirm within 24 hours.
Because we make them ourselves. There’s no agency taking a brief and forwarding it to a manufacturer, no national-brand pricing layer, no museum-conservation-spec overhead we don’t need. Just a working Brighton workshop cutting, bonding and shipping cases direct to the people who ordered them. The material and the build are the same as the premium suppliers use — what comes off is the layered markup. If you genuinely need museum-conservation specification (anti-UV laminates, sealed cases with conservation-grade O2 scavengers, climate logging), say so when you enquire and we’ll spec it — that’s where prices justifiably go up.
No minimum order and no set sizes. One case is fine. Every case is made to your exact dimensions. We don’t round up to the next catalogue size, we don’t charge a ‘bespoke surcharge’ on top of catalogue pricing, and we don’t penalise small orders. The calculator above gives you the actual price for the actual size you want.
Yes — tracked courier for smaller cases, pallet network for larger or multi-case orders. Local Brighton collection available. White-glove delivery and installation for museum and high-value cases.
Use the calculator above for an instant price, or describe what you need and we’ll quote within 24 hours.
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