Planning is now well underway for the Museum’s South West Wing Project: an exciting opportunity for us to enhance the service provision of the National Maritime Museum’s Archive &
Library.

The new Research Centre, opening in
2012, will offer users a large modern reading room and improved access to the
paper-based collections of the museum, including the Archive & Library
collections. Building work is expected to begin in the summer 2009.
The project requires substantial Archive & Library resources
including the completion of a full location control and audit prior to the removal
of the collections to the offsite
store.

In
order to prepare for the decant of Archive & Library collections from the
south west wing of the Museum in
preparation for the building work on the south west wing, the Caird Library will
be closed during the following weeks: