Housing collections

In article <20051228134415.J51020 at shell.lmi.net>, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> writes: OK, this brings me to another question for you collectors out there... What do you do when your collection no longer fits in your office / spare bedroom / basement / garage? Do you downsize the collection to fit? Do you rent warehouse space? Do any of you have physical museums that you've constructed with public exhibits (besides the CHM, of course)? I have talked with another local collector about finding a suitable location for storage/display of our collections. He was interested in buying a place, I am toying with the idea of building something to house my (growing) collection before it outgrows my basement. I'm getting to that point dangerously soon, I'm afraid as I've recently acquired some rather large items (vaxserver, 4 lilith workstations, PDP-11/03, etc.) and the era of equipment I'm shooting for entails more "large heavy power hungry items" of the 80s workstation era. If you built your own space, what did you do for power and HVAC needs? I'm in Salt Lake City, so I have to be concerned with both heating and cooling. I'm tossing around the idea of buying an empty lot and building an "earth ship" on it to house a museum/collection.