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How the new V&A Storehouse is reshaping public access to museum collections

By Alison Hess, Lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies, University of Westminster
Around 70-90% of museum collections around the world are kept in storage . Often housed in buildings far away from their public institution, they represent a picture of hidden cultural and historical resources.

Remote storage often presents logistical and cost challenges to enabling public access to collections, and it remains an area of museum work that is easy…The Conversation


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