[NHCOLL-L:2049] RE: Moving Collections

[Rich Rabeler]

I supervised the move of the University of Michigan Herbarium last year.  While Paul has covered many points in his earlier post, one "cost" that we found kept increasing during the preparations was packing supplies.  While you can estimate the supplies needed for packing the collection, I would try to add at least a 10-15% contingency to your supplies estimates to account for probably needing more than you originally thought.

Rich Rabeler
University of Michigan Herbarium 
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Jody Ullman
  Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 5:34 PM
  To: nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
  Subject: [NHCOLL-L:2040] Moving Collections


  As Collections Manager of a Natural History museum, I have been tasked with developing a budget for the cleaning, packing and moving of our entire collections into a new collections storage area in the same building.  The collection consists of the following:
  Zoological specimens- 30,000 mounts, eggs, nests, skeletons, etc. 
  Fluid Collections-500 jars of various sizes
  Herbarium specimens- 1000
  Geological specimens-20,000
  Palentological specimens- 120,000

  If anyone has had experience moving such a  collection and is willing to impart information and advice, please reply off list at collections at valivingmuseum.org
  Thank you,
  Jody Ullmann