Study Storage
The Nasher Museum of Art Study Storage Center offers visitors up-close and hands-on experience with works of art not currently on view in the exhibition pavilions. Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts. The Study Storage Center is a gift of Christine and Pierre Lamond and Alice Martin Whelihan.
Past departments utilizing study storage include:
- Environmental Sciences
- Classical Studies
- Dance
- Thompson Writing Program
- Foreign Languages
- Duke Divinity School
- Women's Studies
- History
- Art, Art History and Visual Studies
To arrange a visit to Study Storage contact Marianne Wardle, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of Academic Programs, at 919-684-5203 or marianne.wardle@duke.edu, or Molly Boarati, Academic Program Assistant, at 919-684-9243 or molly.boarati@duke.edu. Visits to storage take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays between 10am and 5pm.
Please note that all visitors are requested to leave bags and backpacks in the lockers by the Lecture Hall when they arrive. Only pencils are allowed for use in the pavilions and storage spaces and no food or drinks are permitted in these areas.
IMAGE: Students examine Renaissance prints in Study Storage for a class assignment. Photo by Lee Nisbet.
