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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2494123, member: 24314&quot;]No museum does.&nbsp; I worked at the Smithsonian in DC and the public gets to see perhaps 2% of the National Collections.&nbsp; In the 1960&#039;s (before working there) we would check the museum trash.&nbsp; &quot;Dora the Explorer&quot; would send in a box of specimens, the good stuff would be selected out and the rest went into the trash.&nbsp; That&#039;s how I began collecting gems, minerals, and fossils!&nbsp; They even kept large meteorites and petrified wood on the side of the old &quot;castle&quot; building.</p><p><br /></p><p>These days, I bet stuff goes into the museum shops for sale rather than the trash.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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