So can you just deaccession the smell?

"Finch, Andy" wrote:
>
> Isn't the smell part of the object?
>

> >At our museum we recently received a
> > rubber police uniform trench coat c.1940's.  Unfortunately it smells so
> > strongly of cigarette smoke that we do not want to put it in storage and
> > thus
> > cause the whole collection to smell like smoke.  We are a small museum
> > with
> > only one closet for storage of all objects.     .  So my question is, does
> > anyone have any suggestions as to how we can get the offensive smell out?
> > Any and all suggestions are welcome. Feel free to reply off list.
> >
> > Kathrine Young
> > Collections Manager

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