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Catalogue description Tate Gallery: Stores: Correspondence and Papers
This record is held by Tate Gallery Archive
| Reference: | TG 7 |
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| Title: | Tate Gallery: Stores: Correspondence and Papers |
| Description: |
This series of records relates to the storage facilities of the Tate and comprises:
Records held at the Tate Gallery are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference TG 7). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, see TG 7. |
| Date: | 1935-1986 |
| Held by: | Tate Gallery Archive, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 19 files and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records have either been deposited in the archives via the Director's Office or had previously been transferred to Gallery Records or its predecessors. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Works in the Tate's collections were originally stored in the basement of the Millbank building. As the collections increased in size so too did the need for space to house them. From the 1960s onwards a number of solutions to this problem were sought, including use of a store at Gorst Road in Acton and the sharing of offsite storage with other national museums and galleries. During the 1990s the Tate took a definitive step towards securing its future storage needs with the development of a state of the art facility in Southwark. |
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