The Storeroom as Promise inquires into the value of museum collections and stores for today's museums. It focuses on a variety of museums with differing specialisations, all of which explicitly make their stores a central theme in their exhibitions. Using a cultural studies approach, it seeks to fathom what makes the store so attractive for the museum today - as metaphor, method or place. What ideas about the store and collection do these exhibitions transmit? And how does the process of translation from stored object to exhibited object take shape? sakriti opis