The Mariners’ Museum and Park’s Bronze Door Society is a member-managed affinity group that funds projects presented by members of the Museum team. In 2022, one of the Museum’s Library Archivists reached out to Spacesaver Storage Solutions to provide a quote for additional flat file storage cabinets to help preserve works on paper to present to The Bronze Door Society for funding. Because the library collection is always expanding, it was important that the cabinets could be used in a future mobile shelving design. The library archives space already takes advantage of flat file cabinets on mobile carriages with shelf space above. Spacesaver’s 420 and 423 museum cabinets were a perfect fit for this project as they can be used in their current, stationary location or they can be incorporated into the design of a future mobile shelving. While the 420 cabinets provide storage for more standard sizes of works on paper (maps, blueprints, etc), the 423 cabinets provide storage for oversized items or a mix of sizes. (They can even store a service technician or two. The Library Archivists’ proposal to The Bronze Door Society was funded in October 2022.
