A Way To Put Toxic Museum Artifacts Back Into Their Original Owners' Hands

Museum artifacts are often preserved in mercury, arsenic, or DDT, but chemists are working on ways to clean them well enough for Native people to use again.

Francie Diep
By Francie Diep
May 27, 2014

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