Strange Museum Store Statistics

Museums stores are a strange netherworld rarely visited by visitors and museum staff alike. Yet it is a treasure trove of interesting troglodytes and natural fauna as well as the material culture of this great nation. Here are some interesting facts you never knew about museum stores.

» In Museum stores, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to lose objects.

» It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to knock the handle off your most precious Chinese vase.

» £26 billion has not been spent on upgrading museum stores in the past 20 years.

» You use more calories drinking acetone than there are in the acetone itself.

» On average, there are 178 forms of insect on each item in your clothing store.

» There are 1 million silverfish for every curator in the world.

» Odds of being killed by a stuffed dog in a museum store – 1 in 700,000.

» Odds of being killed by debris falling off store shelves – 1 in 5 billion.

» Odds of being killed by acetone poisoning – 1 in 86,000.

» Odds of being killed by getting stuck in the store quarantine freezer – 1 in 3 million.

» Odds of being killed by a faulty humidifier switch – 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a car crash going to pick up a loan item from another museum– 1 in 5,000.

» Odds of being killed when adjusting the fiddly little lights in display cases – 1 in 2 million.

» If you read all your museum's accreditation paperwork in one go, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes, but will seem like 10 years and 33 days

» The average smell in a museum store weighs 760 nanograms.

» Curator skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even when the store's computerised atmospheric management system goes on the blink again.

» 314 Curators have had buttock surgery in since 1994.

» Annual growth of the museum cat is 314,000%

» A museum’s desire to accept modern methods of collections management increases by .0001 seconds annually.

» The average curator flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a single storage inventory.

» There are more than 1,000 chemicals in the average museum store.

» The average museum emergency plan weighs 20 million tons.

Apologies to http://all-funny.info/weird-statistics for the inspiration