The Great Move Blog
The University Museum is currently moving large parts of its collections to a brand new central storage facility. On the Museum’s moving blog, you can follow the process.
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This move involves first of all material from the parts of the Museum’s cultural history collections that are not accessible to the public, but it also contains some natural history material. It is challenging to move fragile museum material like various cultural heritage objects, furniture, large cupboards, boxes, and altarpieces – elephants, horses, and tiny insects. Not only do they have to be transported securely out of the old buildings, down stairs, and out into the Bergen rain. They also have to make a stopover at an intermediate station, at a workshop, where they are prepared, restored, and supplied with documentation, before they finally can be transported to the new central storage facility.
The moving blog
You can now follow all parts of the work involved in the moving process on the project’s own blog The Great Collection Migration. Here you can follow the great Move through text and photographs, listen to stories, and read more about the details of exciting objects that lie hidden in this extensive material.
Responsible for the project is a group consisting of mainly conservators, from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Brazil. You can read more about the team and about the moving process on the comprehensive and exquisite blog. The blog is in English, both because of the team members’ diverse backgrounds and because the project attracts international interest. To enter the Museum’s moving blog, click here: The Great Collection Migration.
