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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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