stackyFACTSLeave it to cultural institutions to hoard so much irreplaceable history that most of it lives in the dark. The cost of maintaining climate-controlled, ultra-secure subterranean vaults for artifacts that will never see the light of day consumes a massive portion of historical preservation budgets.
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