Spotlight on Stores Move
ARCHIVED EXHIBITION
26 July - April 2023
Spotlight Gallery, Ground Floor
Spotlight on Stores Move: the exhibition
The members of the Stores Move team have chosen the objects in these cases to represent the different ways in which they interact with and care for the collections. Although our engagements with objects are structured by the requirement of a highly ambitious project, they are also intensely individual.
The team have different specialisms and passions but are united by the desire to give these collections the visibility and care that they deserve. We hope that these objects will be the first of many to be exhibited, explored and enjoyed as a result of our work.
The MAA Stores Move Project
The Stores Move project (2020-2025) aims to move over 250,000 objects from the current off-site stores to the new Centre for Material Culture. Here, they will be safely housed in the historic Cambridge Nuclear Bunker.
Operating to tight timescales, the Stores Move team update catalogue descriptions and other documentation, restore mistaken identities, photograph each object, and pack them all safely for transport. If we can pull it off, hundreds of thousands of objects will be both physically and digitally accessible, many of them for the first time.
Explore the objects
 | Chosen by Annie Tomkins |
 | Chosen by Emily Shorter |
 | Chosen by Sam Daisley |
 | Chosen by Lily Stancliffe |
 | Chosen by Jane Pettitt |
 | Chosen by Louise Puckett |
 | Chosen by Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff |
 | Chosen by Veronika Lorenser |
 | Chosen by Lizzy Peneycad |
 | Chosen by Katrina Dring |
 | Chosen by Lucie Carreau |
 | Pay No Attention to This Label Chosen by Imogen Gunn |
 | Chosen by Ayesha Fuentes |
 | Chosen by Milenko Noguera-Basic |
 | Chosen by Mark Elliott |
 | Chosen by the Stores Move Team |
