Keeping Culture

Museums and archives are repositories for our cultural heritage. These collections are often vast, and only a fraction can be shown at a time. In recent years, visible and visitable storage strategies have gained traction, promising increased accessibility to reserve collections, while also signalling new institutional transparency and public accountability. ‘Keeping Culture’ explores the scope, scale, and significance of cultural storage facilities, providing fresh insights into their implications for collecting, conservation, and our broader understanding of cultural heritage, as well as the architectural experiments that have accompanied the cultural work of keeping things.