S09E02: Extreme Storage

Together with special guest host Emma Duggan we go behind the scenes, under ground, even into the freezer! In short we explore the world of extreme or unusual store methods in museums and heritage, ranging from cold and dry to super soggy. Tune in for interviews with Toby Jones from the Newport ship project, Angela Middleton from Historic England, and Sarah Allen from Lux & Livre. 01:36 How can storage even be extreme? 03:54 Keeping stuff in a salt mine 11:42 Kloe is obsessed with the Svalbard Global Seed Vault 14:42 Interview with Sarah Allen 23:52 Low oxygen solutions 27:50 Interview with Toby Jones 36:58 Interview with Angela Middleton 50:36 Storage is sexy 52:18 Go listen to our new song! 52:51 Patreon shout out Show Notes: - Upcoming 2021 exhibitions at the Wellcome: https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions - Two presentations on the Cambridgeshire archaeological archive storage solution: http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Quinton-Carroll-PDF.pdf and https://www.icon.org.uk/asset/98468873-7144-4AC7-B9A3E0ABF10236E0/ - DeepStore: https://www.deepstore.com/ - Svalbard Global Seed Vault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault - National Film Preservation Foundation: https://www.filmpreservation.org/ - National Park Service guide to cold storage: https://www.nps.gov/museum/coldstorage/html/intro1_1.html - BBC video clip about the British Library low oxygen storage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-30929009 - Project Airless on the NatSCA blog: https://natsca.blog/2016/03/18/project-airless/ - The Newport Ship: https://www.newport.gov.uk/heritage/en/Newport-Ship/Newport-Ship.aspx - Historic England’s ’Preserving Archaeological Remains’ publication: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/preserving-archaeological-remains/ - Isle of Wight case study on reburial: https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16040&ru=%2fResults.aspx%3fp%3d1%26n%3d10%26a%3d4480%26ns%3d1 - Rotterdam’s new store: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/21/radical-transparency-will-rotterdam-open-museum-change-art-the-depot-boijmans-museum - Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHBfYsHR0UBAiA_VhMeOIw - ’Something to Conserve’ (a conservation anthem): https://youtu.be/1ML6jAN19vk Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Emma Duggan. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2021.