The Yale Peabody Museum Consolidates Collections And Improves Storage Environments With Spacesaver Systems
The Yale Peabody Museum Consolidates Collections And Improves Storage Environments With Spacesaver Systems
2 PagesWith more than 7.5 million specimens housed in mobile systems throughout three floors, storage space was cut in half. FOR MUSEUMS St o rag e The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, a premier institution in the areas of anthropology, paleontology and zoology, recently opened the Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center and utilized Spacesaver storage systems for most of its collections. “Anytime you build a new university facility, campus space is an issue,” said Tim White, assistant director for collections and operations. “By utilizing Spacesaver compact storage systems instead of conventional storage methods, the Peabody was able to cut storage space require- ments in half by shrinking 40,000 square feet of storage into 17,000 square feet.” By reducing cubic space, t
