• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
search menu
close
  • About us
    • Suffolk Museums Partnership
    • The Association for Suffolk Museums
      • Suffolk Museums Leaflet
  • Museums
  • What’s On
  • Projects
    • Special Delivery
    • Kickstart
    • Transforming People to Transform Museums
    • Making Waves Together
    • Suffolk Steps
    • The Last Woodwose
    • The Grit
    • Creative Heritage in Mind
    • Holiday Activity and Food Programme
    • Summer in Suffolk Museums
  • Get involved
  • News
  • Contact us
  • Object of the Year 2022
  • search

The Association for Suffolk Museums HomepageThe Association for Suffolk Museums

independent charity for museums in Suffolk.

Preserving and promoting Suffolk's Heritage
  • About us
    • Suffolk Museums Partnership
    • The Association for Suffolk Museums
      • Suffolk Museums Leaflet
  • Museums
  • What’s On
  • Projects
    • Special Delivery
    • Kickstart
    • Transforming People to Transform Museums
    • Making Waves Together
    • Suffolk Steps
    • The Last Woodwose
    • The Grit
    • Creative Heritage in Mind
    • Holiday Activity and Food Programme
    • Summer in Suffolk Museums
  • Get involved
  • News
  • Contact us
  • Object of the Year 2022
  • search
Home » News » Storage Solutions at The Lanman Museum

Storage Solutions at The Lanman Museum

Posted on 19th December 2019

Due to a refurbishment of the Castle, the Museum was forced to seek alternative storage for many of our artefacts off-site. In addition, our collection of local history related items is ever growing so adequate and effective storage solutions were needed. In particular,  we needed racking to house our complete collection of the Framlingham Weekly News. Having established that the conditions in what is known by us as the ‘pig pen’ (the units are in fact converted pig-pens) were suitable to store paper, we then looked at the available options. For the Castle storage we had already purchased some ‘Big Dug’ racking so the most cost effective solution seemed to be to expand this system to accommodate our increased requirement. Cost research endorsed this view.

The increase in our costs due to the additional storage rental of nearly £1000 p.a, means that our funds are under even more pressure, and we looked to AfSM for a small grant to help with the capital cost of the racking. This is against a background of our wishing, as and when we can get funding, to undertake a major refurbishment of the Museum to improve both our artefact housing from an environmental perspective and the overall interpretation and display. In the Museum damp is always a major concern. For this we need to try to retain some funds towards our capital contribution. A situation familiar to many AfSM members!

We are very grateful to AfSM for providing the funding for the racking. As you can see from the photograph, a Trustee working party was assembled to erect the shelving and we can now store the artefacts and expand the collection, ultimately leading to us being able to have a greater variety on show to the public.

By Alison Bowman

Footer

STAY IN TOUCH

Contact: Jayne Austin,
Museum Development Manager
T: 01473 265008
E: museums@suffolk.gov.uk

AfSM MEMBERS

Add your event

FOLLOW US

Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook

The Association for Suffolk Museums is an independent charity (No.293950) and membership body.

Supported by Suffolk County Council, the membership of the Association for Suffolk Museums and SHARE Museums East.

Copyright © 2023 Association for Suffolk Museums · All rights reserved · Privacy Policy · Created by Opens link in new tab Purple Hippo