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Old 28-05-17, 09:28
Bruce MacMillan Bruce MacMillan is offline
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Here we see the oft blurred line between "museum" and "collector" quality.
Museums should preserve and display artifacts as found. This gives a item provenance. People often think that a item rebuilt to be as new is what museums want. Talk to any curator at the CWM or IWM and you'll find the history is more important than how it looks.

There is a need for both camps. Rebuilt vehicles are needed for living history displays. These venues can be taken to the public and give some idea of working items of that era. One of the biggest and popular is the Living History area of W&P.

The public there doesn't know that the German panzer is actually a FV432 chassis made up to look the part. But we are all entertained.
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