Managing museum storage can be daunting, especially when finding storage space for all the archives. Archives come in many shapes and forms, including manuscripts, documents, rare books, audio tapes, video tapes, and historical artwork. Organizing, storing, and managing the growth of these items can be challenging. That’s where rolling archive shelves come in. Read on to learn more!

Managing museum storage can be daunting, especially when finding storage space for all the archives. Archives come in many shapes and forms, including manuscripts, documents, rare books, audio tapes, video tapes, and historical artwork. Organizing, storing, and managing the growth of these items can be challenging. That’s where rolling archive shelves come in. Read on to learn more!

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What are Rolling Archive Shelves?

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Rolling archive shelves are space-saving rolling shelves compact storage, making museums more space efficient. One of the biggest challenges with traditional museum archive shelving is that they take up a large amount of space due to static access aisles. These static aisles can require as much as 60% of your storage floor space. Rolling archive shelves reduces the number of access aisles, thus reducing the amount of space required for storing archives.

Best of all, the rolling compact storage systems are made to fit your room’s space and height. If you’re looking for a way to organize your museum’s archives in less floor space, consider using rolling archive shelves. Click to see more museum storage solutions.

How Rolling Archives Shelves Work

Rolling archive shelves maximizes the storage area by mounting rows of shelving, cabinets, and racks onto rolling steel platforms. These shelving platforms are placed on floor tracks. By mounting the shelving on platforms that move on tracks, static access aisles are no longer required. The compact rolling system creates a moveable aisle that can be accessed when and where needed. As a result, archive storage requires less floor space. A lot less floor space. Up to 50% less space!

multimedia rolling archive storage shelvesThere are two methods of moving the rows of shelving to access stored archive materials. The first method is a hand-wheel control located on the shelving row ends. Hand-wheel controls work well for shelving rows up to about 15’ long. To open an aisle, rotate/turn the hand-wheel mechanism. With little effort, one hand-wheel control can move up to five to six shelving rows.

The second method is a push-button control system. Push-button controls give you hands-free operation. For example, if you are carrying an archival box, pushing a button to open an aisle is easy versus trying to rotate and hand-wheel control. Push-button controls are best suited for shelving rows longer than 15′. The push-button shelving systems are electrically powered and include safety devices to protect people and items accidentally left in an aisle. They also have lighting options that only turn the overhead lights on when an aisle is open.

Both rolling archive shelving systems are reliable and easy to operate. These compact storage systems are expandable and relocatable if you should decide to move or renovate your museum. Visit our online store to see our museum storage products.

Benefits of Rolling Archive Shelving

rolling artwork archives storage museumSince rolling archive shelves reduce storage space and the cost of building and maintaining a museum. Building smaller, more efficient museums is a smart business decision because they reduce ongoing operational costs. These reductions include electricity, lighting, fire control systems, HVAC, and insurance.

Rolling Archive Shelves – Great for Museum Storage

You can find rolling compact shelves in libraries, police stations, athletic facilities, offices, industrial facilities, hospitals, and any business with stuff to store.

Why Use Southwest Solutions Group?

Regarding museum storage, you need a trustworthy partner to protect your priceless artifacts, archives, and specimen collections. Southwest Solutions Group has over 50 years of experience working with museums, libraries, and archives, and we understand the unique challenges of museum storage. We offer a wide range of museum storage solutions, from compact rolling shelving systems to museum cabinets and artwork storage.

What are Rolling Archive Shelves?

rolling archive shelves

Rolling archive shelves are space-saving rolling shelves compact storage, making museums more space efficient. One of the biggest challenges with traditional museum archive shelving is that they take up a large amount of space due to static access aisles. These static aisles can require as much as 60% of your storage floor space. Rolling archive shelves reduces the number of access aisles, thus reducing the amount of space required for storing archives.

Best of all, the rolling compact storage systems are made to fit your room’s space and height. If you’re looking for a way to organize your museum’s archives in less floor space, consider using rolling archive shelves. Click to see more museum storage solutions.

How Rolling Archives Shelves Work

Rolling archive shelves maximizes the storage area by mounting rows of shelving, cabinets, and racks onto rolling steel platforms. These shelving platforms are placed on floor tracks. By mounting the shelving on platforms that move on tracks, static access aisles are no longer required. The compact rolling system creates a moveable aisle that can be accessed when and where needed. As a result, archive storage requires less floor space. A lot less floor space. Up to 50% less space!

multimedia rolling archive storage shelvesThere are two methods of moving the rows of shelving to access stored archive materials. The first method is a hand-wheel control located on the shelving row ends. Hand-wheel controls work well for shelving rows up to about 15’ long. To open an aisle, rotate/turn the hand-wheel mechanism. With little effort, one hand-wheel control can move up to five to six shelving rows.

The second method is a push-button control system. Push-button controls give you hands-free operation. For example, if you are carrying an archival box, pushing a button to open an aisle is easy versus trying to rotate and hand-wheel control. Push-button controls are best suited for shelving rows longer than 15′. The push-button shelving systems are electrically powered and include safety devices to protect people and items accidentally left in an aisle. They also have lighting options that only turn the overhead lights on when an aisle is open.

Both rolling archive shelving systems are reliable and easy to operate. These compact storage systems are expandable and relocatable if you should decide to move or renovate your museum. Visit our online store to see our museum storage products.

Benefits of Rolling Archive Shelving

rolling artwork archives storage museumSince rolling archive shelves reduce storage space and the cost of building and maintaining a museum. Building smaller, more efficient museums is a smart business decision because they reduce ongoing operational costs. These reductions include electricity, lighting, fire control systems, HVAC, and insurance.

Rolling Archive Shelves – Great for Museum Storage

You can find rolling compact shelves in libraries, police stations, athletic facilities, offices, industrial facilities, hospitals, and any business with stuff to store.

Why Use Southwest Solutions Group?

Regarding museum storage, you need a trustworthy partner to protect your priceless artifacts, archives, and specimen collections. Southwest Solutions Group has over 50 years of experience working with museums, libraries, and archives, and we understand the unique challenges of museum storage. We offer a wide range of museum storage solutions, from compact rolling shelving systems to museum cabinets and artwork storage.

What are Rolling Archive Shelves?

rolling archive shelves

Rolling archive shelves are space-saving rolling shelves compact storage, making museums more space efficient. One of the biggest challenges with traditional museum archive shelving is that they take up a large amount of space due to static access aisles. These static aisles can require as much as 60% of your storage floor space. Rolling archive shelves reduces the number of access aisles, thus reducing the amount of space required for storing archives.

Best of all, the rolling compact storage systems are made to fit your room’s space and height. If you’re looking for a way to organize your museum’s archives in less floor space, consider using rolling archive shelves. Click to see more museum storage solutions.

How Rolling Archives Shelves Work

multimedia rolling archive storage shelvesRolling archive shelves maximizes the storage area by mounting rows of shelving, cabinets, and racks onto rolling steel platforms. These shelving platforms are placed on floor tracks. By mounting the shelving on platforms that move on tracks, static access aisles are no longer required. The compact rolling system creates a moveable aisle that can be accessed when and where needed. As a result, archive storage requires less floor space. A lot less floor space. Up to 50% less space!

There are two methods of moving the rows of shelving to access stored archive materials. The first method is a hand-wheel control located on the shelving row ends. Hand-wheel controls work well for shelving rows up to about 15’ long. To open an aisle, rotate/turn the hand-wheel mechanism. With little effort, one hand-wheel control can move up to five to six shelving rows.

The second method is a push-button control system. Push-button controls give you hands-free operation. For example, if you are carrying an archival box, pushing a button to open an aisle is easy versus trying to rotate and hand-wheel control. Push-button controls are best suited for shelving rows longer than 15′. The push-button shelving systems are electrically powered and include safety devices to protect people and items accidentally left in an aisle. They also have lighting options that only turn the overhead lights on when an aisle is open.

Both rolling archive shelving systems are reliable and easy to operate. These compact storage systems are expandable and relocatable if you should decide to move or renovate your museum. Visit our online store to see our museum storage products.

Benefits of Rolling Archive Shelving

rolling artwork archives storage museumSince rolling archive shelves reduce storage space and the cost of building and maintaining a museum. Building smaller, more efficient museums is a smart business decision because they reduce ongoing operational costs. These reductions include electricity, lighting, fire control systems, HVAC, and insurance.

Rolling Archive Shelves – Great for Museum Storage

You can find rolling compact shelves in libraries, police stations, athletic facilities, offices, industrial facilities, hospitals, and any business with stuff to store.

Why Use Southwest Solutions Group?

Regarding museum storage, you need a trustworthy partner to protect your priceless artifacts, archives, and specimen collections. Southwest Solutions Group has over 50 years of experience working with museums, libraries, and archives, and we understand the unique challenges of museum storage. We offer a wide range of museum storage solutions, from compact rolling shelving systems to museum cabinets and artwork storage.

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Southwest Solutions Group® provides design and installation services for museum storage solutions. Free consultations are available to determine your needs before the design process begins. To learn more or to speak with a storage specialist, call us at 1-800-803-1083 or send us a message.

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“I want to thank your entire team for the outstanding work on our art storage project. The process from beginning to end was smooth and enjoyable, and the finished room looks terrific! Chester, Bryan, Chris, Chris, and the other members were extremely thorough and a pleasure to work with. They followed our house rules and took our direction very well. Thanks again for an outstanding project, and I look forward to working with Southwest Solutions in the future should the opportunity arise. ”

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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“The new art racks are massive and beautiful! I cannot wait to hang art on the racks with those fancy hooks, wow! Thank you for helping me see the project through. The efforts of your team and installation really made the project go very smoothly and on time. We look forward to showing off the new and improved art storage room to our Director, Board Members, and Staff. Thanks a million, it has been a pleasure to work with you and your wonderful team on our paintings storage area.”

San Antonio Museum of Art
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“I would like to thank you and your team at Southwest Solutions Group for working with the museum so diligently over the years. I also want to thank you personally for your patience, professionalism and great attitude as we’ve navigated the sometimes bumpy road to completing the Blanton Phase I and Phase II. Southwest Solutions Group will certainly be at the very top of my list for any future museum storage needs.”

Blanton Museum of Art
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“Southwest Solutions Group is an amazing company made so much better by having Daryl at the helm of Museum and Library storage space saving designs in the NW. Daryl is not only an expert in high density shelving systems, but he consistently tunes into optimizing long term solutions to complex storage needs and pliable projects. Always reliable and knowledgeable, Daryl and his Spacesaver’s team have been indispensable partners in our world of cultural preservation.”

Seattle Art Museum

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