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Storage

In this section you can find information about shelving suppliers, which materials to avoid in your collection store and how to organise a storage space. If you can’t find what you are looking for, try Exhibition for display-related resources, or Collection care for help in looking after different material types in the collection.

Organising your collection store

A video from Museums Australia Victoria showing you how to organise your collection store.

Storage materials to avoid

A fact sheet from Museums Galleries Scotland providing an overview of storage materials which can cause damage to collection items.

Collection storage: Shelving

This is an M&G fact sheet about different types of shelving for your collection.

Storage and display: Suitable and unsuitable materials

This list by M&G list which sorts commonly used materials such as wood products, coatings, adhesives and fabrics into suitable and unsuitable categories.

Storage and Display Supplier List

This resource includes contact details for suppliers specialising in display cases, signage, mannequins and storage.

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Museums & Galleries of NSW acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and all the other Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We pay respect to them as First Nations people with a continuing connection to land, place, waters and community.

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