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The main objective of this project is to characterize the Caixa Geral de Depósitos’ storage rooms, where its art collection remained between 2008 and 2021, as well as to document the preparatory work for its transfer to the new facilities located in the headquarters building of this banking institution. This report begins with a brief presentation of the collection, with reference to its creation and the guidelines for the acquisition criteria. Storage rooms are characterized, by identifying the main factors of degradation and the preventive conservation measures and procedures adopted regarding space maintenance, characteristics of storage equipment, packaging, and other preservation procedures. On this theoretical/practical approach there has been included the preparatory work for the collection transfer, along with a description of the adopted methodologies regarding the objects’ reorganization on the equipment and on the new space, the disposition of this equipment in the new storage rooms, as well as the packaging identification for the transfer and the methodologies and materials adopted for different objects. Finally, the new storage rooms design evolution is presented, along with a brief characterization of the space, taking into account that, for technical reasons due to the context of the measures adopted to control the COVID-19 pandemic, the transfer did not occur until this report has been submitted. The present report is relevant for the institution, as it documents the period in which the Collection remained in the old facilities and the procedures for its transfer, and it aims to be regarded as future memory for this collection’s history. |