De-Installing our Ancestral Americas Collection in preparation for our Ground Floor Transformation 

Filmed on June 25, 2024
In preparation for a full-scale reimagining of the Gardiner Museum's ground floor galleries, our staff undertook the painstaking process of moving our collections from the ground floor galleries to a temporary storage space on the third floor. This involved carefully removing each object from its case, packing it for transportation, documenting its condition, and establishing a tracking system to ensure each piece is accounted for.
Postdoctoral fellow Juliana Ramírez Herrera is curating the re-installation of the Ancestral Americas collection and conducting research on its provenance. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the team moving the Ancestral Americas collection to a temporary storage space on the third floor in preparation for the first phase of construction.