Boxes can incorporate fold down sides and sliding bottom trays to improve artifact removal. Learning to make boxes is an important collections care skill. The Northern States Conservation Center provides box-making courses to museums for staff and volunteer training. A list of our courses is available here . Instead of stacking items directly on top of each other within a box, convert box interiors into multiple layer storage units.
Some companies sell acid-free cardboard trays and dividers for their box interiors.
For many boxes, however, you will have to make your own interior supports. Rest the shelves on small ethafoam supports placed inside the box. By stacking Foam-cor shelves on ethafoam supports, a box can be created that has three or four separate shelves. Solander boxes are found most often in art museum storage areas. They have a wood frame, cloth covered exterior, and paper lined interior.