Storing watercolours

Croydon Museum Service has a large collection of watercolour
paintings in its store.  There are approximately 1000 small
paintings mainly of local interest.  We are proposing to mount the
works and store them flat in solander boxes.  It has been suggested
that storing the work in Melinex sleeves would be more appropriate
as the weight of the mounted works when stacked could leave an
indentation around the aperture.

I wondered if anyone on the list would like to share their
professional opinions.

Gemma Sturtridge
Assistant Collections Officer
Croydon Museum Service
Community Services Department
Culture Division
Room G11, Croydon Clocktower
Katharine Street
Croydon CR9 1ET
+44 20 8253 1026


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