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The sculpture Giraffa Artificiale is finally on display at the Natural History Museum in Milan after being restored thanks to a project initiated by the Getty…
Preservation of Plastics German Democratic Plastics in Design: A Research Project on Material, Technology, and Conservation Fernsehgerät FS Alex, 1957. Horst Giehse, Jürgen Peters, designers. VEB Stern Radio Berlin, producer. Photo: ©Die Neue Sammlung–The Design Museum, A. Laurenzo. The preservation of plastic objects poses a difficult challenge for conservators. Research into conservation of plastic objects, which only emerged in the 1990s, has been primarily focused on the identification of plastics, their degradation, and possible conservation and restoration methods. The extent to wh...