Case Study
Renowned Meadows Museum Utilizes Specially Designed Mobile Systems
Spacesaver powered art racks maximize storage for paintings, eliminating the need to double hang art w o r k . St o rag e The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, T e x a s houses the most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. With works dating from the 10 t h to the 20 t h centuries, the intern a t i o n- ally renowned collection contains more than 1,000 objects and paintings. Since its opening in 1965, the founder of the collection, Algur H. Meadows, provided the funding and impetus for aggressive acquisitions to the permanent collection. In 2001, a new 66,000 square foot building was built to house the burgeoning collection. “The museum’s permanent collection simply outgrew the old facility and expansion of the collection was hampered by lim