Pod 4, or "high bay"

Photo Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution
January 15, 2016
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Photo Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland

The Museum Support Center (MSC) is the principal off-site conservation and collections storage facility for the National Museum of Natural History’s irreplaceable national collections. 

Pods 1, 2 and part of 4 contain more than 15,000 storage cabinets. A portion of Pod 4, referred to as "high bay," houses oversize specimens such as boats, totem poles, fossils and meteorites.

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