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Large-scale operation

The scale of the rehousing was enormous. Dealing with over 154,000 objects means you simply canā€™t operate at a micro level. After all, the entire collection was being moved in one go, over a period of about four months. This page tells you all you need to know about the grand scale and logistics of this operation.

For a period of twelve weeks, transportation trucks drove between all the current external storage facilities and the new depot five days a week, making a total of 216 trips. A few thousand artworks were being transported each day and housed in their new location in the Depot.

Weekly update of the rehousing

Below you can see the progress of the move in images and statistics:

Animation relocating Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Time lapseĀ 

During the rehousing of the works, we made a time-lapse video of the compartment for storing paintings. We also took a photo each week in the same spot in four of the storage compartments. This creates a fascinating picture of the huge number of movements required to fill all the storage spaces.

A colour code for each artwork

How did the art handlers know where each art object should be placed? We have considered this carefully in advance, because otherwise it would be an impossible task. First of all, we have taken 3D measurements of each object so we knew they will definitely fit in their new racks. In addition, each object had a colour code. There was a different colour for each category of artwork. All glass objects, for instance, had a pink label. Altogether there were fourteen colours for fourteen types of objects. They corresponded to the fourteen compartments in the depot. Thanks to these colour codes, when each transportation arrived the depot staff immediately knew where the objects had to go, so that they could be quickly moved to the compartment where they belong.