Relocating the Past
The University Museum of Bergen was originally called Bergen Museum and founded in 1825. The museum has been housed in two buildings at the top of "Nygårdshøyden" since 1927 and the storage facilities are located all over town. In 2010 it was decided to rent a brand new central storage facility constructed after the museums demands. The new storage will have all the newest preventive measures to ensure that the collections are secure and well preserved for many years to come. This includes complete climate control, safety against water, and fire by introducing inert air. Inert air is the lowering of oxygen level from 21 to 16 percent.
The new storage facility is awaiting completion in October 2012 and the museum conservators now embark on the great task of moving all the collections from their current storage to the new one. Not a simple task when the collection include bisons, zebras, insects, chairs, farm equipment and altarpieces many meters tall. A great migration is about to begin…
Archive for August, 2013
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To be or not to be…
In the last couple of months the conservation department and the moving project has been slowed down by the common “summer vacation disease”. Everyone on the project has had at least a week of and most of our external partners and general museum personal have been on vacation as well. This has influenced our capacity […]