> Renee Montgomery is looking for any leads to museums or art foundations with
> "open storage" for paintings, prints and drawings (framed or unframed).  By
> "open storage" she means storerooms where the public or
> visitors-by-appointment (scholars) can access or see objects in storage with
> no or minimal staff assistance.

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The National Gallery, London, which has all of its collection on display
all the time except when in conservation or on exhibition elsewhere, has
some basement spaces with what amounts to open storage for everything not
in the main galleries.  These are often quite densely hung, but are on
open access to all visitors.  However, this is strictly a paintings
collection with only about two and a half thousand works in the
collection.  The problem is much greater for larger collections and for
drawings, watercolours and prints - which shouldn't be on continuous
display anyway.

Patrick Boylan