How to Choose the Right Museum Storage System?

 Museums are repositories of history, filled with extraordinary objects - from vast samples of paleontology to tiny specimens. According to the US government, there are over 35,000 museums in the country, most notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago and the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Thousands of museums receive millions of visitors.

 

While gazing at the Mona Lisa, many museum visitors do not stop to consider an underestimated and perhaps unnoticed complexity: storage. Yet, as museum archivists, curators, technicians and staff understand, the museum storage market is both interesting and challenging.

 

In what follows, we will delve into the challenges of choosing the right storage solution for museums.

 

China Railway Museum———low Oxygen Controlled Atmosphere Showcase System

Choosing the right variety

Choosing the right museum storage system starts with understanding the system required for your application. For example, single- and double-door museum cabinets are ideal for general collections, botanical specimen cabinets, entomological cabinets and flat files. Perhaps a specific museum needs to save space - high density mobile storage may be ideal. For fast and robust applications, shelving designs may be perfect. Below, we explore each type of storage, including the advantages and ideal applications.

 

1. Museum cabinets

When you have too much to store and too little space, museum cabinets are ideal - it's a common story. Museum directors and curatorial staff are tasked with safely and securely storing priceless obsolete objects. The ability of future generations to appreciate historical artefacts is often in the hands of the staff. Once again, the best storage will vary depending on the object for which it is equipped.

 

The product provides a suitable storage micro-environment for the collections, which has the advantages of “constant humidity, cleanness, stability and low-oxygen”. It is suitable for constant humidity and low-oxygen storage of small quantities of organic, metal and inorganic cultural relics.

Constant Humidity And Clean Storage Cabinet

Active regulation modules such as humidity control, purification, low oxygen, and detection display. It can be equipped with energy-saving control modules such as constant humidity, purification and oxygen regulation, etc. Closing the door can realize constant humidity, cleanness and low oxygen regulation, without power supply.

 

2. Herbarium cabinets

As the name suggests, herbarium cabinets have the right quality, width, colour options and accessories for your plant collection. The herbarium cabinet has an industry-unique compression handle that provides a very tight seal and non-venting silicone gasket. The goal? To protect your precious specimens without any worries.

 

3. Entomology Cabinet

Like the Botanical Specimen Room Cabinet, the Entomology Storage Unit includes a locking compression handle to protect your zoological collection.

 

4. Art Rack

The Art Rack is designed for the storage of artwork. Some cabinets are designed for storing paintings in reserve collections, research areas or high density areas. Others are designed to store artefacts, sculptures, prints, textiles and any number of unique collections.

 

5. Archive cabinets

Archivists have the important job of preserving valuable possessions. Paper, photographs, recordings, artefacts and electronic documents carry the weight of historical societies, government entities and more. In essence, these items are irreplaceable. Therefore, the storage systems designed to carry them must be safe and secure, with non-reactive surfaces.

 

6. Natural History and Research Centre cabinets

The Natural History Museum prides itself on the diversity of its collections. Flexibility is absolutely vital. Storage systems must be able to carefully store light animal specimens and huge palaeontological fossils. Storage in natural history museums must accommodate paleontology, palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology, dendrochronology and many other varieties.

 

7. Flat files

Flat files are heavy duty welded files with ball bearing slides and smooth drawer interiors. Seamless access to stored materials eliminates damage to stored items.

 

CNRO High density storage

 

1. Warehouse

Cultural relics storage warehouse, display warehouse, multifunctional warehouse.

 

Airtight and constant humidity (low oxygen) warehouse

It is used for mildew and insect prevention, constant humidity cleaning, elimination of acidification, oxidation and chemical corrosion and low oxygen fire prevention of cultural relics and collections of organic materials and metal materials, providing long-term preventive protection and storage of the collections. The displaying and storing function can be realized at the same time when the glass enclosure structure is used. It also can be used as fireproof warehouse when the oxygen content is lower than the combustion conditions.

Low-oxygen(constant Humidity) And Clean Warehouse

Low-oxygen(constant Humidity) And Clean Warehouse

Designed for the Capital Museum, Shanghai Library, Chongqing Red Rock Revolutionary History Museum, the high airtight and constant humidity (low oxygen) and clean warehouses realize the“stable, cleanness, constant humidity, low-oxygen”storage and display. The follow-up test indicates that after 26-day low oxygen static storage, the variation of the oxygen content and relative humidity is 2.4% and 3.8% respectively.

 

2. Showcase

Under the condition of passive regulation module, the showcase can automatically maintain stable, constant humidity and low oxygen status without power supply.

 

Low-oxygen(constant Humidity) And Clean Showcase

Low-oxygen(constant Humidity) And Clean Showcase

Main function of Low-oxygen and constant humidity showcase

 

Automatic data adjustment according to the requirement and the type of collection

Automatically monitor the humidity and oxygen concentration

Air purification and self-cleaning function

Remote control and monitor

 

Equipped with constant humidity purification control device, the high airtight constant humidity wall-standing showcase (L31xW0.65xH3.3m ) designed for the Pu Songling Memorial Hall, realizes the "airtight, constant humidity, cleanness, intelligent" regulation.

 

Are you interested in learning more about right museum storage system and how they can benefit you? Get in touch with us today to secure an expert consultation!

 

For further technical information talk with our specialist or visit our website https://www.cnro.net. We can help you to identify the best solution for your application.

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