More than 250 paintings, prints and drawings by the artist, drawn from private collections and from Soviet museum storerooms, are in a show that opened here today at the Pushkin Museum.

As you know, Italian museum storerooms are engorged with works of art.

Until recently, her paintings were kept in museum storerooms in Denmark.

"Ever since I've had to give up field work," Dr. Ostrom told a reporter years later, "I've said the best discoveries are made in museum storerooms."

Meanwhile new skeletons keep tumbling from museum storerooms, suggesting that Russia may also be hiding the famous Buddhist paintings from the Silk Road, once among the great prizes of Berlin.

Then he remembered Theodore Chasseriau's "Portrait of Man" in the museum storeroom.

Of the 15,000 pieces estimated to have been looted, many from museum storerooms, about 5,000 have been recovered.

The statue, rescued from a cesspit by the American military police and Iraqi police, sits cleaned in a museum storeroom.

In the museum storeroom the young American was beginning to weep-tears were somewhat more common then- with the relief of strain.

She believes that vintage clothing should not be hidden in home closets or museum storerooms.