Aurora Storage Products, a manufacturer of shelving, high density, and rotary storage products used in office, library, healthcare, and warehousing settings, recently acquired Sentinel Museum Cabinet line from Tiffin Metal Products in Ohio. Since the acquisition, Aurora has been working on significant design improvements and just shipped the new and improved museum cabinets to the field.
Museum cabinets are highly specialized storage devices used primarily to protect rare and valuable artifacts managed by curators of natural history, science, and art museum collections. There is also an expanding interest in museum cabinets by corporations and municipalities who want to establish a historical archive of past records and mementos.
“Our philosophy is to provide the best products and services available," said Linda Gottfried, former sales manager for Tiffin and 20-year veteran of the museum storage industry, who has joined Aurora Storage in the role of museum market manager. "We are accomplishing this by combining the best existing aspects of the Sentinel products with new design and functionality to be built into an improved line of Aurora Museum Cabinets including Herbarium, Entomology, and General Collections Cabinets.”
Aurora Storage Products has secured high-profile orders from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Berkley Museum at University of California-Berkley, and the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University.
“The addition of museum cabinets is a significant expansion of our market potential and production capability at Aurora Storage Products," said Manfred Haiderer, president of Aurora. "We can now blend our Aurora High Density Mobile storage with the new Aurora Museum cabinets to provide one complete product line for museums with large and small collections."