Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Maryland

The attic for the nation’s museum, the Smithsonian, is the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, the institutes primary storage and conservation complex. Around 54 million items are stored in five numbered pod buildings, with a total of 435,000 square feet of storage. Next door to it is an even larger storage and collections complex, though less high-tech, which includes the Garber Facility, used by the Air and Space Museum.