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zoobyshoe
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It seems to me there is a news story almost every day concerning some important find from the past, be it a primordial fossil or a Viking sword.
From various sources I've read, it seems to me the bulk of museum collections are masses and masses of undisplayed storage: there just isn't space to properly put it on view.
The more we dig up, the worse this will get. The human race seems to be suffering from a hoarding instinct. Indeed, anything over 20 years old is now labeled "vintage" and is asserted to have some value to collectors.
What is to be done?
From various sources I've read, it seems to me the bulk of museum collections are masses and masses of undisplayed storage: there just isn't space to properly put it on view.
The more we dig up, the worse this will get. The human race seems to be suffering from a hoarding instinct. Indeed, anything over 20 years old is now labeled "vintage" and is asserted to have some value to collectors.
What is to be done?