Museum Storage Solutions

Our museum storage solutions include museum cabinets, mobile shelving, flat file cabinets and much more.

Museum Collections:

Wonderful to display, increasingly difficult to protect and store.

For museum curators, storage is a consistent struggle. Preservation and best practices need to be balanced with a constant influx of new artifacts and items—and along the way, lack of storage means compromised collections.
In working with many museums, we’ve learned that integrity, preservation, and conservation of your collections are the #1 priorities. We assist museums with reorganizing, repurposing, and reconsidering the possibilities of their space.

Museum Storage:

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Fine Art Storage

Our art rack storage systems offer a versatile and secure way to store fine art collections, with special consideration to two-dimensional works. Racks can either be hung from the ceiling or integrated into a museum’s existing floor, and can store double the amount of art by allowing pieces on both sides of the rack without interference.

Museum Storage Cabinets

For smaller items and especially priceless artifacts, museum storage cabinets can be designed to meet the specific needs of your staff, facility, schedule, and budget. These cabinets are approved for museum and archival use, with solvent-free, non-reactive baked polyester coating.
From arms and armor, jar storage, insignia, textiles, bones and much more, —feature several high-density mobile storage systems with mounted cabinets and shelving that is custom fit whatever object and artifact that needs storing. The organization of these storage vaults are so impressive that viewing windows were installed to afford visitors a look behind the scenes.

Weapons Storage

Though weapons storage is more synonymous with public safety or military applications, can play an important role in museums.

Because of the many different types of weapons in any museum’s collection, shelving paired with high-density mobile carriages maximizes storage space to its full capacity.

For additional weapons storage, weapons racks can be used, and other artifacts such as body armor, swords, and helmets can be placed on sturdy, adjustable wide span shelving and mounted to additional compact storage shelving units.

High-Density Mobile Storage

The staff at the Canadian War Museum was looking for a solution that would compact storage and increase the amount of storage space. For that reason, a high-density mobile system was installed with the purpose of organizing and safely storing the museum’s 500,000 artifacts. The collections ranged in size from buttons and insignia to tanks and airplanes. Larger, bulkier items were stored specifically in a mechanical-assist mobile system with 18-foot-high pallet rack to maximize the vertical and horizontal space available.

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Explore our favorite applications of museum storage along with the unique tale behind their storage.

Archival & Off-Site Storage

As collections continue to expand while storage space stays the same, many museums are turning to leasing or purchasing off-site storage facilities. When storage space is nowhere to be found, the integrity of collections can get compromised.

When this becomes an issue, we recommend a high-bay mobile storage solution. High-bay mobile storage has the same characteristics of standard high-density mobile storage, but offers a way for more to be stored vertically. This solution is a great way to store archives and books.

Feeling a bit crunched with your collections storage?

Contact a storage expert today and let us walk you through your options.