Museum Storage Design

advanced facilities for museum collections

Background and project history


Although my career came to focus on practical operations, it began with registrarial work, exhibition and display origination, and museum education, in a diversity of environments from regional museum services to the Royal Collections Trust, via the Tate and the British Museum.

This range of experience helps me to understand the requirements, and also the aspirations, of staff in museum organisations today.

Clients include the following institutions.  Click on the images to visit their websites.







Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Dublin






La Coleccion Jumex, Ecatepec






National Museum Store, Doha







The Towner, Eastbourne, UK






Ditchling Museum, Ditchling, UK







Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK













City Museum & Art Gallery, Salford, UK










Jewish Museum, London







Archive of the Order of St John, London


The projects themselves naturally vary.  Most involve analytical storage surveys. Those in Eastbourne and Ditchling, for example, led to collaboration with the design teams to develop the building spec, and culminated in recommendations for collections storage equipment.
The Hunterian project, on the other hand, was to survey current storage and provide wide-ranging guidance covering all aspects of planning and operating a single remote site.

I am currently assisting Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the designs for a new museum and library.


Last update: 2011