Abstract
Relocating the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy presented its staff with a series of complex challenges. Part of University College London, the Grant is a university museum operating in an academic context with teaching commitments and an events schedule that needed to continue during the relocation of the museum. Many of the 70,000 specimens in the collection are rare and fragile, and for some, their sheer size made them difficult to pack and transport. In addition to requiring expertise on caring for the collection when it was at its most vulnerable, the Grant Museum team also needed to be experts in negotiation, advocacy and be aware of the political undercurrents found in any large academic institution.
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