Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum will purchase nineteen museum quality mobile painting screens to be installed in the museum's offsite storage facility, increasing the museum's preservation capacity and improving storage conditions. These screens will house works from the museum's collection of Northwest art, many of which are now being stored in less than ideal conditions. The new painting screens will bring great improvements in storage efficiency, contributing to a more sustainable use of space in the museum's storage area over the long term. A logical clustering of paintings of the same type, plus increased visual and physical access will make it much easier for museum staff to track locations and to retrieve paintings for study, reducing staff time and benefiting curators, visiting scholars, and ultimately, all museum audiences. The museum will publish project results online and share them at professional conferences to support interest in the collection.