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Row after row

The Science Museum's portion of Blythe House has some 10,000 sq m of storage space.

Shelves are stacked high with items that trace the history of Western science and technology.

The museum's South Kensington exhibition halls display just 7% of the institution's entire collection.

Nearly all the rest � 170,000 items � is kept at the storerooms.


�In pictures:�The Science Museum's storerooms

	Row after row The Science Museum's portion of Blythe House has some 10,000 sq m of storage space. Shelves are stacked high with items that trace the history of Western science and technology. The museum's South Kensington exhibition halls display just 7% of the institution's entire collection. Nearly all the rest � 170,000 items � is kept at the storerooms.