Imagine a museum collections area in perfect order: everything has its place, with no disorganization or overcrowding. Even recently acquired items are seamlessly integrated into storage, right where they belong. There’s even room to grow in the future with museum cabinets!

You can start creating that space today — for yourself and for your colleagues decades down the road.

An interior that changes with your collections

The Spacesaver Viking Preservation Cabinet 920 Series offers a unique combination of versatility and strength. For instance, you can fill it with trays today, and years from now, after collections have grown or changed, your future colleagues can reconfigure it with drawers, hanging rods, or other accessories.

Store more as museum collections grow

These modular museum cabinets can help add storage capacity in the future, too. Set them on the floor or mount them on casters at first, and years later they can be stacked or placed on compact mobile systems to save space and create more room for growing collections.

Popular Configurations

Designing your cabinet is easy! You can configure your cabinet any way you want, but it’s helpful to begin by looking at setups that others have chosen. We’ve put our most popular configurations all in one place as a starting point for you. Get inspired, and then make your own cabinets with virtually endless configuration options.

The biggest challenge in planning a collections area is usually dealing with future uncertainty: How will collections grow over time? Could collecting priorities shift in a few years? Will we ever get more room to expand collections storage?

A Cramped Collections Area

Housed in a former tobacco warehouse that was built in 1898, the Frazier Museum has shifted focus over the past couple of decades. As a result, its collecting priorities and its collections have changed.

What hasn’t changed are the architectural constraints in the museum’s collections storage area. Large structural columns break up the space. Ductwork drops down from the low ceiling. In the past, inefficient static shelving filled the area. Staff knew something needed to be done to improve the space and add capacity, while still maintaining convenient access to all the objects in the collection.