What are your thoughts on the practice of replicating museum artifacts for their own protection? For those who don't know, many of the artifacts destroyed by ISIS turned out to be plaster copies. Is this practice common in US museums? In either case, would you be concerned about the authenticity that museums might be depriving the general public by not showing the original artifacts?
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What are your thoughts on the practice of replicating museum artifacts for their own protection? For those who don't know, many of the artifacts destroyed by ISIS turned out to be plaster copies. Is this practice common in US museums? In either case, would you be concerned about the authenticity that museums might be depriving the general public by not showing the original artifacts?
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