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Why aren’t you wearing gloves? The conservators’ guide to object handling in the British Museum

 

Whenever the British Museum upload a video that features a member of staff handling an object without gloves they receive a flood of comments asking why.

To help clear up confusion, the Museum asked their conservators to explain when you should (and shouldn’t) wear gloves while handling museum objects.

 


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