AGH Behind the Scenes | In the Vaults

2021

Join AGH Preparator extraordinaire, Paula, as she guides you through some of the behind the scenes secrets of the Gallery storage process.

Storage might not sound that fascinating to everyone, but a lot of work, time and passion goes in to it, and you’d be surprised how interesting it can really be ;)Join AGH Preparator extraordinaire, Paula, as she guides you through some of the behind the scenes secrets of the Gallery storage process.
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hello my name is paula and i’m the

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preparer here at the art gallery of

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hamilton

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and today we’re going to talk about one

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of the projects that we’ve been working

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on

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during the gallery’s closure with copic

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19 which is our print

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storage in our vault several years ago

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the art gallery got a grant to um

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upgrade our montel units

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and with that grant we were also able to

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buy shelves

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for these existing units and with the

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shelves we were able to take the solider

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boxes which we used to have stacked five

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high

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which isn’t ideal we were able to spread

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them out more so that we could have two

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cylinder boxes per shelf which made it a

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lot easier to use

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and we decided to redesign the layout so

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that we had

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because we have five different sizes of

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cylinder boxes we went from the smallest

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to the biggest so on this side we have

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our smallest cylinder box and each

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cylinder box

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contains about 20 to 25

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works on paper matted so if you think

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about

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that per box we have about 100 boxes

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here that’s almost

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2 000 works on paper and our collection

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is we have over 6 000 works on paper

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which is almost 70

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of our collection so just right here

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this is a big chunk of our

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permanent collection and these are a

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great unit of storage

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because each box protects the contents

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from light

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dust particles critters anything that’s

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like

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around so um they’re great so let’s take

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a look at what’s inside

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one of our cylinder boxes

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so the great thing about cylinder boxes

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is that they open up completely flat so

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the lid

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and the spine open up completely flat

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the inside

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is acid free and the works that

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are matted are also on acid-free matte

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and has to feature paper and as you can

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see you can stack

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about 20 to 25 matted works

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so this is a great space saver because

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they’re stored unframed

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and we can store about 20 in a box

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so that’s great this is a work from our

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permanent collection

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and it is a print by

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picasso

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so um storage may not seem like a really

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glamorous

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side of an art gallery but it’s pretty

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important

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and i’m really happy about these new

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shelves

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and i’m glad i got to share them with

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you so thanks for watching

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