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Visible storage catches on in museums
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With the move towards greater access and display of museums' collections, museum displays have adopted what is known as visible storage. Besides the North American museums mentioned in the article, European museums have also long been incorporating such display methods in the overall museum presentation - such as the Victoria and Albert museum, the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers museum (in Oxford). It is also not surprising that museums in Europe have adopted visible storage display methods even before it became "fashionable", if we understand the origin of museums as "curosity cabinets".