The Christmas season is, by far, the busiest time of the year at the FRHS. It takes weeks to install the displays – during which yours truly is known to utter a barrage of choice expletives, especially when using a glue gun – but takes surprisingly little time to dismantle.
Did you ever wonder where the heaps of boxes of trees parts, decorations, and everything else that goes with the “festivities” are stored? In past years, they were laboriously lugged down forty-four steps and four landings from the third floor of the museum building, and hauled up again in early January. Coming down is far easier – believe me. Boxes, of all shapes and sizes, required a significant amount of storage space – a scarce commodity at the FRHS.
But thankfully, not any longer.
The solution: A quantity of standardized clear bins, and a storage unit in an off-site location.
Storing the holiday finery off-site – along with various display units – has freed up considerable storage space, allowing for far easier accessibility to the areas used to house objects in the FRHS collections. Using clear bins of conforming sizes makes for easier stacking, and is very useful as an at-a-glance finding aid. Rather an amazing transformation.
Funds for the bins and the first year rental of the storage unit were contributed by an anonymous family foundation. Thank You!
