Their New Home

Dear Artifacts, 

Welcome Home!

Love,

Susie & Kaitlyn

Virtural Tour of the New Storage Room! :)

Let's See How Far We've Come

 

January 2015

 

 

 March 2015

 

 

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Week Ten: Filling the Shelves and Pallets

The over-sized shelving units are being filled with the collection's large items.

We finally received our last shipment: the pallets. The pallets are for the over-sized items that could not be stored on the shelves. From washing machines, to barber chairs, to record players...all are safely stored on the five pallets in the new storage room. 

Check out those awesome bikes!

The pallets, though made of powder-coated metal, were lined with acid-free cardboard for extra protection. The cardboard also helped us store the pieces with peg legs and wheels safely upon the mesh pallets.

Next week will be our last week!!

:)

We will be doing an inventory of the over-sized items and then this amazing project will be finished!

Ahh! The Last of the Shelving Has Arrived!

At last! The over-sized shelving units have arrived!

They are for our large artifacts that don't fit on standard shelving.

Though the wood is museum storage quality, we cut pieces of archival cardboard to line each shelf for a little extra protection. Only the best for these artifacts!

One of the cutest artifacts in the collection! :)

This (extremely heavy) derby car is now snug in his new home!

Now we are just waiting on the pallets to complete our capstone storage facility! 

Week Nine: Labels

This week we will be labeling our new shelving units. Assigning the cabinets and shelves numbers will give each artifact a "home location." This will help us keep track of the artifacts as they move around (on exhibition, on loan, etc.). 

 

 

 

 

Can you find the labels? :)

 

 

These artifacts will now have a permanent home address - how exciting!  

Week Eight: Spring Break

 

This week we will be taking a little break from the blog!

 

 

Enjoy the sunshine!

Week Seven: Artifact Spotlight

This week's artifact spotlight is a children's pedal car. The Barbie Jeep of the 1950s!

  

 

Look at that bumper detail!

 

A look inside to see how the pedals operate.

 

 

These pictures illustrate how the car is stored in our new facility. It is housed on open shelving and we have constructed small stops for the wheels made out of acid-free board. These will steady the car on the shelf and prevent movement.

 

Vroom-vroom!

Week Seven: Inventory for Days

This week has been dedicated to inventorying the collection within our new storage room.
 

 

 This is the first wave of the inventory process. Once all items have been added to the database, we will do a second wave which will consist of opening all boxes to do a physical conformation.

 

 

We take the time to do this inventorying process so that all artifacts can be easily located when needed. Knowing where every thing is stored is a fundamental part of the collections management process.