Sustainable Plan for Accessible Storage: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

FAIN: PF-260745-18

Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, DE 19735-1819)
Joelle Wickens (Project Director: December 2017 to July 2019)
Joy Gardiner (Project Director: July 2019 to January 2022)
Beth J. Parker Miller (Co Project Director: July 2019 to January 2022)

A grant to establish a long-term storage plan to increase accessibility and improve preventive care of the museum’s collection of over 90,000 American decorative and fine arts objects displayed in 175 room settings.

Winterthur requests a $50,000 planning grant to create a long-term plan to solve its current storage challenges. The plan and eventual storage solution must improve preventive care; be environmentally, financially, and socially sustainable; and increase accessibility to better serve guests, students, scholars, and staff for decades to come. The planning grant activity period marks a critical phase in the ten-year plan to implement accessible storage solutions for Winterthur’s preeminent collections of American decorative and fine arts objects, library materials, garden objects, and estate artifacts. Staff will work with a team of interdisciplinary consultants, students, and early-to-mid career professionals to produce two or three comprehensive storage solutions. Each solution will be evaluated to select the best plan to solve storage issues. Winterthur will produce research and lead conferences on developing accessible storage solutions that will be useful for smaller institutions.

Associated Products

Designing a path to an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable plan for accessible storage at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Article)
Title: Designing a path to an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable plan for accessible storage at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Author: B. P. Miller
Author: J. D. J. Wickens
Author: J. Castle
Author: L. Eaton
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2018.1486077
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Studies in Conservation
Publisher: Routledge

Designing a Path to an Economically, Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Plan for Accessible Storage at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Designing a Path to an Economically, Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Plan for Accessible Storage at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Author: J. D. J Wickens
Author: B. J. Parker Miller
Author: J. W. Castle
Author: L. Eaton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 09/10/2018

Connecting People with Collections (CPC) or Establishing an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable plan for accessible storage (Report)
Title: Connecting People with Collections (CPC) or Establishing an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable plan for accessible storage
Author: Beth Parker Miller
Author: Joy Gardiner
Abstract: A white paper written in fulfillment of a project funded in part by an NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Planning Grant.
Date: 12/31/21

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