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Friday, November 29, 2019 1:16 PM | Deleted user


As collections grow inside aging museums with limited storage, local curators have resorted to keeping precious artifacts on the floor of a flood plain.

The Manitoba Museum houses approximately 2.8 million artifacts and specimens, including massive installations and archeological objects as tiny as a shard. With somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20,000 square feet of storage, objects have to be stored in less-than-ideal locations, such as the basement.

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