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this seems to be a question for a conservator specialized in plastics. First step is the classification of the material.

As many plastic articles are not made for eternity, they are losing plasticizers, which migrate and evaporate. In the end, the plastics get brittle. In these cases, it will not be a matter of "repair" of a hand, because the whole doll gets brittle and will dissolve in the near future.

In principle, museum should not collect items which will dissolve (without any chance for a conservator) within one or two decades. Sue William's "This is a hurt" of 1993 started to destroy itself in 2009 and had to be deaccessed by a museum as a dissolving clod in 2013.

Therefore, art historians and conservators should decide together which works of art will be part of the collection. Fast self-destroying materials include PU foam, some play doughs, latex and silicone.

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