[Nhcoll-l] Moving an insect collection

[Anderson, Gretchen]

Hi Dave,

I was involved in a move some 20 years ago (my time does fly). Like yours it was a short maybe a mile.  After the move we wrote a book on how we did it - Moving the Mountain.  It is available as a free download at https://new.smm.org/collections/moving. I am having trouble remembering the specifics of what we did with the pinned insects, but it should be described in the pdf.

There is also a course on moving museum collections at Museum Study LLC  https://www.museumstudy.com/moving-museum-collections.

If I remember more specifics I will let you know.

Gretchen

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Hi Everyone,

Within the next year we will be moving our entire natural history collection to a new collections facility. This will include 24 cabinets of pinned insects in Cornell drawers. Can anyone advise on the best way to move the drawers to mitigate damage to specimens from jostling while on the truck and while loading? We're only moving about 0.5 miles but the road is a bit bumpy in places. We're planning to use a truck with pneumatic air suspension but are wondering about the best method to actually pack the drawers. In boxes? Wrapped in moving blankets?
Thanks!

Dave

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