Meeting Contemporary Demands for Art and Museum Storage

What the average visitor to a museum or art gallery sees on display is usually just a fraction of the immense collections that the facility holds in its archives. In some cases, just 2-3% of a museum’s entire collection is on display. So where’s the rest?

The majority of a museum’s exhibits are typically buried deep within the core of the building in hard-to-access storage areas or, in some cases, at a different facility altogether. Lack of access to important exhibits is increasingly being recognized as a problem for museums and, in what has become known as the open culture movement, more and more galleries and exhibitions are calling for important materials to be more readily accessible to the people who venture to a museum in the hope of viewing something specific. But just how feasible is this? Can museum staff access vast storage areas to provide visitors with access to one single item?

This is the future of Museums.

The future museums and galleries will rely on organized, effective storage systems that allow curators to access stored materials and artifacts in a quick and efficient manner.