Storeroom

The storeroom is almost directly under Sanchez’ office, accessed via a staircase and long, dimly lit corridor. The basement of the university is quiet at the weekends and the door to the storeroom is normally kept locked. T

Design

The storeroom itself is cavernous and oblong, some 80 feet (24 m) long by 45 feet (14 m) wide. The floor is concrete worn smooth by so years of foot traffic from graduate students and professors alike. The walls are foundation some covered with a thick layer of whitewash lime which is dingy and smells slightly damp.

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The only access to the room is through a stout, secure, metal door which is kept locked at all times. The door is fireproof to protect the valuable artifacts stored here. Senior professors and graduate students who have need to access the collection can do so but the few keys are held only by senior professors and the graduate students must get a key from one of them if they want to access the storeroom.

Sensory & Appearance

It is lit from several basic electrical fixtures which cast long shadows and illuminate the area only poorly. Between the dim electric lighting and the packed shelves, it is difficult to see very far in the storeroom.

Contents & Furnishings

The room is filled with evenly spaced rows of floor-to-ceiling shelves. Most of the shelves are packed with crates, boxes, and bags containing a huge variety of artifacts of historical interest. The shelves and containers are all neatly labeled and everything is clean and well kept. There is a catalog laid out on a stout wooden reading table which provides locations and brief descriptions of the holdings in the collection. 

Valuables

The collection holds many priceless articles from both the colonial and precolumbian period.