Recommendation 20

The Department also told us that, after talking to its museums and galleries, helping them make best of their collective storage space was one of the areas it wanted to look into further. The Department highlighted the example of the National Portrait Gallery leasing space from Tate as good practice around sharing storage space. The Department has also helped the museums and galleries address storage issues through its funding of large capital projects, such as Blythe House and Natural History Unlocked. However, the Department told us that it was clear that it needed to look across all museums and galleries for how they could save more money on storage, but some of the options for doing this would require up-front investment.46 Security threats