Because of the restoration of the stately home Huis Doorn, where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile from 1920 to 1941, the entire collection of the museum had to be moved. Wilhelm II had arrived with 10,000 objects, 59 train wagon loads, and the same volume had to be transported again. During the period of the restoration, two exhibitions of parts of the collection (2,400 objects) were planned in German museums (in Berlin and Munich), to curtail expenditure on storage in Utrecht. Transports to Germany were done by a mover of art objects. A locally well-known firm organized the packing at Huis Doorn and the transport to Utrecht. The operation was a good opportunity to complete the inventory and the description of the condition of the objects. The work was coordinated by an art historian, working on a part-time contract beginning five months before vacating the building. Concessions had to be made to three aspects: objects in need of treatment could not actually be treated; the available time for packing was limited to six weeks between the end of the summer season and the arrival of the building contractor; unpacking and rearrangement had to be done in four months; wherever possible the cheapest solution had to be chosen, as the available money was not unlimited. A database was set up for documentation of the packing. Volunteers helped in describing the condition of the objects in simple reports. The refurnishing and rearrangement was well-planned with the aid of ground plans, photographs, and inventory numbers. However, cases and boxes were, due to financial limitations, not filled in the reversed sequence of unpacking, but according to the volume fitting in the box. So more and more boxes had to be opened which could not be unpacked completely right away, and disorder grew gradually. The number of volunteers, 50 at different moments, also required more organizational measures than planned. Due to the restoration of the building, the storage capacity had diminished, and the actual required volume could not be measured in advance. With a lot of extra handling and moving of objects everything finally got a place. Complications included the need for photographs of the rearranged rooms before they were actually ready, illegible handwriting on boxes, misplaced boxes and objects, and people going into too much detail. Theory differs very much from practice; great flexibility is needed.