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I was contacted by coworkers at the close of business Friday that someone found a sign (image of a kid's face) stuck on a historic door with gum (identified by green color and spearmint smell). Sign was removed, but of course some gum remains. We cannot deal with this tonight, but how critical is it ...

With the exception of one individual email (thank you!), it sounds like we've stumped y'all. Do we not yet have best practices on plastic artifacts? We haven't done the research? We haven't had the objects long enough to see the long term consequences? You don't have plastics in your collections because ...

Hi everyone, I’m posting this for a colleague, but it’s something I’ve been pondering as well as we archaeologists dig more 20th century sites. Here’s her question: “How are you storing plastic artifacts? Especially those that will be returned to private/community owners and not large museum or state ...