What are Museum Cabinets?
Museum Cabinets are specially designed steel cabinets, designed to hold precious artifacts and protect them from external environmental damage. Rackline’s Museum Cabinets are designed features to help control temperature, humidity and light exposure. They also come equipped with features that protect items from dust, pests and oxidation. Museum cabinets are found in any collections area where environmental safeguards are required.
Who uses Museum Cabinets?
Our Museum Cabinets are used by a cross section of museums and galleries to keep their valuable artifacts safe. they are also used within education and other sectors where items needs to kept safe, but remain visible and accessible.
Our Museum Cabinets are used in organisations including: Manchester Museum and V&A.
Museum Cabinet Specifications
- Rackline’s range of Museum Cabinets are constructed from double skin welded Steel.
- Cabinets are fitted with steel doors with a height full piano hinge and dust seals to the entire door closure.
- Doors are available with or without glass viewing panels. The Glass panels also be UV protective as required.
- The cabinets can be fitted with standard internals such as shelves and drawers, but can also be fitted with a central spine for the storage of trays at 2 x trays wide.
- Colour options can be matched to your requirements.
- There are no ‘standard’ as they are manufactured on a case by case basis, but most units are 1020mm wide x 520mm deep x 1800/2200/2400mm high.
Museum Cabinets are supplied as individual units, but designed to seamlessly connect to form rows.
Other Options
As with other storage solutions provided by Rackline, each clients requirements are different, with each application unique to them. We have fitted these units to our mobile bases, to provide high density solutions, we can also fit these cabinets onto pallet truck bases to allow clients to move the cabinets around using a pallet truck (see image)
Talk to us about:
- Locks and security systems to suit your needs
- Adjustable shelving to accommodate items of different sizes
- Climate control to create a stable environment for sensitive exhibits
- Integrated lighting
Other Museum Storage
Art Storage
Rackline’s range of Artwork Storage Solutions are designed to keep your precious inventory safe yet accessible. See our Pull out Art Racking, Lateral Art Racking and Toast Track Solutions.
Mobile Storage
Our high density Roller Racking is ideal for the secure storage of your collection in the smallest possible footprint. Maximise your space, without compromising on accessibility.
Static Shelving
We offers a huge range of static shelving, from standard library shelving to archive shelving, to stronger industrial solutions depending on your collection, the size and weights of your items.
Secure Storage
Keep your valuables away from un-authorised individuals and safe from contamination in Rackline’s range of secure cabinets. Talk to us drawers, shelves or about adaptions to fit your trays.
Find out more
If you are looking to understand your Museum Cabinet options or would like to discuss how we can support you with the perfect museum or archive storage solutions, then call: 01782 770144 or fill in your details below and one of our team will get in touch. See our other solutions for Museums and Galleries here.