"The facility includes labs for conservation, enabling experts to revisit some of the museum’s trickier items, such as a film canister that a family who fled Austria in 1939 brought with them. It was donated to the museum but arrived in an advanced state of decay...

Using organic solvents, conservators were able to restore some of the film’s flexibility, allowing them to carefully unravel pieces of it. Using a microscope, they were able to see a few frames in their entirety, including one showing a couple kissing on a bench in a park and other snapshots of Europe before World War II."

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