Photo by Mr. T in DC.

Hey, it’s American Archives Month. And while tackling that years-old pile of receipts and documents probably isn’t too high on your priority list, the chore might not seem so awful after you consider the job in front of the National Air and Space Museum Archives.

NASM’s Archives, which is currently transitioning to the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center, has, well, a whole bunch of stuff to move:

The new Archives storage area is over 1,486 square meters (16,000 square feet), three times the storage space the Museum had formerly including seven to eight times more space for rare manuscripts and motion picture film. The storage area is modern, climate-controlled, and secured. There is 446 square meters (4,800 square feet) of workroom and office space for the staff.

The staff has inventoried and packed over 14,000 cubic feet of material, including 16,000 reels of microfilm; more than 20,000 motion picture or video items; 60,000 paper drawings; 70,000 technical manuals and two million photographs for the move to the Udvar-Hazy Center.

They hope to be done by Thanksgiving, which is probably six or twelve months before I’ll even take a legitimate crack at sorting through my utility bills from 2008.