April 07, 2021

S09E02: Extreme Storage

54 minutes

Together with special guest host Emma Duggan we go behind the scenes, under ground, even into the freezer! In short we explore the world of extreme or unusual store methods in museums and heritage, ranging from cold and dry to super soggy. Tune in for interviews with Toby Jones from the Newport ship project, Angela Middleton from Historic England, and Sarah Allen from Lux & Livre.

01:36 How can storage even be extreme?

03:54 Keeping stuff in a salt mine

11:42 Kloe is obsessed with the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

14:42 Interview with Sarah Allen

23:52 Low oxygen solutions

27:50 Interview with Toby Jones

36:58 Interview with Angela Middleton

50:36 Storage is sexy

52:18 Go listen to our new song!

52:51 Patreon shout out

Show Notes:

– Upcoming 2021 exhibitions at the Wellcome: https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions

– Two presentations on the Cambridgeshire archaeological archive storage solution: http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Quinton-Carroll-PDF.pdf and https://www.icon.org.uk/asset/98468873-7144-4AC7-B9A3E0ABF10236E0/

– DeepStore: https://www.deepstore.com/

– Svalbard Global Seed Vault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

– National Film Preservation Foundation: https://www.filmpreservation.org/

– National Park Service guide to cold storage: https://www.nps.gov/museum/coldstorage/html/intro1_1.html

– BBC video clip about the British Library low oxygen storage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-30929009

– Project Airless on the NatSCA blog: https://natsca.blog/2016/03/18/project-airless/

– The Newport Ship: https://www.newport.gov.uk/heritage/en/Newport-Ship/Newport-Ship.aspx

– Historic England’s ’Preserving Archaeological Remains’ publication: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/preserving-archaeological-remains/

– Isle of Wight case study on reburial: https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16040&ru=%2fResults.aspx%3fp%3d1%26n%3d10%26a%3d4480%26ns%3d1

– Rotterdam’s new store: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/21/radical-transparency-will-rotterdam-open-museum-change-art-the-depot-boijmans-museum

– Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHBfYsHR0UBAiA_VhMeOIw

– ’Something to Conserve’ (a conservation anthem): https://youtu.be/1ML6jAN19vk

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Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Emma Duggan.

Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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A Wooden Dice production, 2021.

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