How to Plan for Cold Storage Preservation

How to Plan for Cold Storage Preservation

Coolers and freezers provide thebest possible preservation environment for film and a variety of other materials, so they’re essential components of most museum risk management strategies. Cold storage is expensive to build and operate, though, so it’s important to understand the needs of various materials in your collection and carefully plan for the move to cold storage.

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How to Plan & Implement a Move to Cold Storage

Cold storage is expensive storage. You can keep building costs and operating costs down by planning carefully and making the most of every square inch. Here’s how to plan your cold storage space.

  • 評估集合
    • Identify materials that need cold storage and sort by items that need cold storage, frozen storage, or typical archival storage. Measure the amount of space required to store items that currently need to be maintained in cold storage and frozen storage, and add curators’ estimates for future space needs.
  • 製定使用策略/程序
    • Describe how researchers and others will request access to stored materials, who will be entrusted with access to cold storage areas, where and how materials will be acclimated as they are brought into and out of cold storage, and where and how researchers will be allowed to study materials after they’re brought out of storage.
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Cold storage freezer room optimized with high-density mobile shelving systems for twice the amount of storage.
  • Determine Where Items Will Be Stored
    • Smaller collections can be stored in refrigerators or freezers, but be sure to use models that maintain a constant temperature. Medium-sized collections can be stored on shelving or museum cabinets housed in small walk-in coolers. Larger collections are generally stored in compactors housed in purpose-built cold rooms and walk-in freezers.
  • Create a Plan for Moving to Cold Storage
    • Work with vendors to coordinate delivery and installation dates, and determine who will be responsible for scanning (if desired), cataloging, acclimatizing, and moving items. Determine procedures to monitor temperature and relative humidity, and prominently post contact information for vendors in case of equipment malfunction.
  • Optimize Space Within the Cold Room or Freezer
    • 調整擱置以避免擱板之間浪費空間,並使用壓實機(high-density mobile shelving)鞏固材料。您可以存儲的商品越多,您將越多,既初始建築成本(由於占用較小的足跡)和持續的能源成本(完整的冷卻器或冰箱更有效地操作)。
Compact cold storage in museum temperature controlled room
Managing space in your cold storage room is essential to cut costs and store more essential supplies

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