Catalogue description Tate Gallery: Stores: Correspondence and Papers

This record is held by Tate Gallery Archive

Details of TG 7
Reference: TG 7
Title: Tate Gallery: Stores: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series of records relates to the storage facilities of the Tate and comprises:
Inventories, 1969-1986
Private property, 1935-1983
Gorst Road, 1968-1983
Movement and handling, 1940-1975

Archive catalogue page is available via the Tate website

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:

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.
Subjects:
  • Museums and galleries
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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