The Storeroom as Promise inquires into the value of museum collections and stores for today's
museums. It focuses on a variety of museums with differing specialisations all of which
explicitly make their stores a central theme in their exhibitions. Using a cultural studies
approach it seeks to fathom what makes the store so attractive for the museum today - as
metaphor method or place. What ideas about the store and collection do these exhibitions
transmit? And how does the process of translation from stored object to exhibited object take
shape?
