Dear Andrea,
I would suggest getting in touch with staff at Cranbrook Art Museum. They recently completed a major renovation that includes open storage for their illustrious collection of decorative arts, sculpture, paintings, etc. Since the museum is closely affiliated with the Cranbrook Academy of Art, they count as an academic museum, and their collection is also smaller than the big civic museums you mention.
See:
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Best wishes,
Rebecca Elliot
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-20-2016 06:34 PM
From: Andrea Rosen
Subject: Open/Visible Storage for Small/Academic Museums
Hello,
I'm looking for examples of open or visible storage spaces in small museums and/or academic museums. Of course the examples of open storage usually given online are at very large civic institutions like the Luce Centers at the Met, the Brooklyn Museum, SAAM, the V&A, etc. Examples focused on decorative arts or ethnographic arts are particularly welcome. The visible storage gallery at the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell is the closest thing I've found to what I'm envisioning.
Furthermore - and this may be a long shot - do you know of any examples of a museum, particularly an academic one, putting visible storage somewhere other than their main building? Another academic building on campus, for example.
Many thanks,
Andrea Rosen
Curator
Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont