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American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:52 pm
by Hunter87
Re: American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:59 pm
by ovenpaa
Wow, that is impressive.
Re: American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:43 pm
by Blackstuff
Fools, bureacratic fools don't know what they've got there, it belongs in a museum!
Joking aside, why is a military organisation in control of a collection like that??
Re: American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:11 pm
by North Star
It reminds me of the vatican vaults in the Tom Hanks film Angels and Demons!
Re: American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:55 pm
by meles meles
Is there a big crate at the back, stencilled "Ark" ?
Re: American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 5:52 pm
by 450 Martini
Having worked in the museums field for several years I have visited quite a few of these types of storage facility. Some museums have as little as 10% of what they own on public display, there just isn't the room to display everything. Good museums try to circulate displays every few months and try to show off what they have got, bad museums have items in store that have never seen the light of day.
One day while working in one of these store facilities I was once handed a JMW Turner painting worth around eight million pounds and I got a very close look at it.
Quite a few council museum services have large reserve collections and they try to keep a low profile because every now and then a councillor will see the local museum's exhibits as a source of cash.
Re: American army treasure vault
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:11 pm
by Gundoc
I had that feeling the first time I visited the pattern room