Keys for display cases

In your museum, how many keys do you have for your showcases, not
just for each showcase but in general? A key per floor of the
museum, a key for stand alone cases and a key for wall-mounted cases
and is there a separate key for the storage cabinet underneath?

We want to get rid of the old system where we have close to a
hundred keys but what is advisable, many keys or fewer keys. What
system are you using, more importantly with how many keys, and who
supervises the keys? Thank you for sharing,

Roeland Stulemeijer
Conservator
National University of Singapore Museums
10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Singapore 119260
+65 874 8817
Fax: +65 778 3738


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