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It’s a tough call” we can’t store everything so we’re tomotive Museum took an average how people lived” Or how bugs lived of 48 minutes per item Sitton says very picky in choosing” Another limitation is space AlThe cockroach tour which could But that doesn’t mean the collecMany of the objects were stacked Natural His top' officials though ' become a beetlemama exhibit innear the ceiling in a cavernous waretion is devoid of weirdness have the luxury of being able to house stead will highlight some of the farm out some artifacts to several Take for example the box lag Natural History Museum’s 6 milbeled simply “Billy Barty” (no he And in the satellite museums there’s simply no lion insects Also in the planning isn’t inside it turns out to contain room - which contains everyto display all this stuff way Decida show on cats his costume from the 1987 movie thing from Oliver Hardy's hat to a stages: road The overall collection is believed “Masters of the Universe”) Or the glove from “Planet of the Apes” -ing which items will be displayed in the nation to be the “duck foot” pistol a closet labeled “US Marine can be difficult “People like the oldest the first trailing only the Smithsonian Insti(“For group shots” Fireman quips) Corps” actually holds a medieval-lookin- g armor chest plate and chain the biggest and the best” says FireOr that blob of 19th century wedtution and New York’s American Museum of Natural History man The museum’s 1830s banjo vest ding cake (one of very few items m mail-typ- e tip of all What do you do if you wake tip and suddenly realize you've just missed an air fare sale's midnight deadline? 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