In 2007 a webbased manual for good storage of museum objects is under construction in Denmark. The manual will comprise knowledge and experience concerning storage of museum objects and preservation of the physical cultural heritage. Furthermore, it will seek to gather all known Danish development projects on this topic, and it will be a portal to sites of similar topics abroad.
The Danish Museum Storage Manual will give advice and guidance to everyone establishing or running museum stores.
The backbone of The Danish Museum Storage Manual will be the presentation of six prominent Danish museum stores. To start with the sites of four museum stores for cultural historic objects are built, then the sites of stores for objects of natural history and art objects. The museum stores in the manual are all noted for being good models in each their way and for making their knowledge and experience available to others. The presentations are based on five principal subjects: Organisation, design, construction, internal lay out and operation. The objective of The Danish Museum Storage Manual is a website of about 300 pages plus attached articles and documentation.
From late summer 2007 it will be possible to tour the individual museum stores or to seek information on specific subjects. For example: Roof construction, operating budgets, pest control, user’s manuals, cleaning procedures or floor paint. From September 2008 an English version of all relevant pages will be unrolled. The Danish Museum Storage Manual is financed by the Danish Agency of Cultural Heritage. The Danish National Museum and The Association of Danish Museums also participate in the project.
Steering Committee
Head of the Conservation Department Jesper Stub Johnsen, The Danish National Museum.
Curator Danny Eibye-Jacobsen, The Natural History Museum of Denmark.
Head of the Conservation Department Jørgen Wadum, the Danish National Gallery.
Leading Conservator Lise Ræder Knudsen, Vejle Center for Conservation, member of the board of The Association of Danish Museums.
Leading conservator Lone Petersen, Museum of Cultural History Randers.
Project group
Responsible project manager Lone Petersen, Museum of Cultural History Randers.
Project manager Lise Ræder Knudsen, Vejle Center for Conservation.
Project co-workers TinaKramer, Kramer Moltke, Restauration,
Co-woker Karen-Marie Henriksen, the Danish National Gallery
Co-worker Pia Dahl, The Danish National Museum
Scientific editors
Conservator Tina Kramer, Conservator Lise Ræder Knudsen, Conservator Lone Petersen
Technical editor
Pia Dahl, The Danish National Museum
Lay out
Web-editor Charlotte S.H. Jensen, The Danish National Museum
Host
The Danish National Museum
Web
www.magasinmanualen.dk, www.collectionmanagement.dk, www.collectionsmanagement.dk
Contact
Lone Petersen, or Lise Ræder Knudsen,
