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The Grab List: How Museums Decide What to Save in a Disaster

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In 2008, a flood imperiled the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s collection, which had been insured for around $250 million. Thousands of pieces of art were ultimately moved before the water found its way into the building. But some pieces—a $140 million Jackson Pollock, for instance—took priority. Lou Stoppard details the processes by which museums great and small strive to protect their collections from our ongoing climate crisis. (A renovate…
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Longreads broke the news in on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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