Professional War Medal Framing Melbourne: Preserving Medals and Family History
May 2026
For many Australian families, custom framing war medals, ribbons and military honours professionally is important to protect and preserve family history. As conservation framers, our framing process uses techniques and materials to display medals with utmost care and integrity. Expert workmanship, attention to detail and beautiful design and layout by our FRAMING TO A T team are all reasons we achieve a beautiful result in framing medals in Melbourne across our three store locations.
When families decide to frame war medals, they often arrange replica medals to keep on hand for days of commemoration, such as ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day, while opting to frame the original medals to preserve them.
You may wish to include a plaque, badges, patches, photos, jewellery, military tags or other items to frame alongside the medals to complete this framed piece of family history.
The same can also be done for framing sports achievements, such as marathon medals and race bibs.
We offer our customers choice of glass, recommending conservation clear glass (with 99% UV protection) for items such as these, and all our materials and techniques are conservation quality. Our Design Consultants can assist with coming up with an ideal layout and colours to arrive at an elegant, considered frame design for your medals and memorabilia.
The below gallery shows our framing of some of our customers' framing of medals, badges, pins and photographs.
01. Featuring a photograph, medals and a plaque, this framing includes multiple mat board colours, finishes and textures, creating levels and highlighting the detail within the framing, as well as two frames to create detail and dimension.
02. A balanced layout and complementing mat colours give these framed war medals, photograph, pins, badges and chains a stunning finish within the multiple openings.
Hand sewn to the base mat, these delicate pieces honouring our customer's campaign and service medals are protected and elegantly displayed.
03. In lighter, earthy mat colours, this handsome layout of medals, pins, plaque, small replica and photo is a great example of including multiple elements within a frame.
04. This prestigious Order of Australia medal is framed with a formal suede mat board. The burgundy is a striking complement to the blue of the medals, while the gold inner mat board highlights each section; medals and plaque beautifully.
05. Including medals, photographs, badge and brief bio, this beautifully framed piece honours important family history with this exquisite custom frame design.
06. The mat board colours and frame profile are a handsome choice to complement the sepia coloured photographs that capture this customer's family history with service for the Royal Australian Navy.
07. These handsomely framed police badges and plaque are hand sewn to a blue suede mat board. To raise the glass away from the badges, we have created a 3D effect, with the inside of the frame rebate also lined with the blue suede mat board to give the impression of a lined box, offering a neat and high quality finish.
08. In contrast to the example next it, this framed selection of medals includes two blue suede mat boards, one beneath the medals that they are sewn to, and one on top which gives the medals a border and creates space so the glass doesn't touch the medals directly.
09. These remarkable original documents, including a 'Soldier's Send-Off' event invitation and 'Soldier's Pay Book' are framed alongside medals and photographs to honour this incredible family history. By displaying each document float-mounted within individual mat board openings, we see the raw edges and age of the documents.
10. The final measure; these coins and medals laid out in place, ready for hand sewing to the base mat board.
11. A beautiful portrait orientation layout for these medals, hand sewn and assembled with matting and plaque, ready for framing.
12. Uniquely framed Fire Brigade medals and life achievements, displayed within individual mat board openings with complementing inner mat colours to surround each medal and finished with a handsome navy mat board.
13. A simple, yet balanced frame design for these Royal Marines medals, pins and badges, finished with a complementing plaque.
14 & 15. An impressive display of medals, hand sewn and assembled ready for framing with complementing mat board colours for a timeless, elegant frame design.
16. A personal cross stitch depicting a loved one's portrait from WW1. The earthy, green mat board, pewter frame and gold plaque each work for an elegant, tonal colour palette, suited to this sepia-coloured needlework based off a photograph.
17. This example of framing war medals features a photograph, badges and plaque with a balanced layout and earthy colours. The timber frame features a pewter edge to tie back in with the medals and the mat board colours selected.
18. With a larger sepia photograph, this formal frame design features medals, pins and a plaque in earthy colours for a timeless design.