"These are irreplaceable objects".
Fraser believes in investing in irreplaceable objects, bucking the "throwaway culture" of today.
But the loss of ancient irreplaceable objects because of political instability, as in Afghanistan and, more recently, in Iraq, strongly argues for their safekeeping elsewhere.
Even if only apocryphal, this tale is a gentle reminder of the importance of museums and their role in allowing us to connect with priceless, irreplaceable objects like these.
Maybe the truth is that I wish I could get out of this place and live as I imagine some nondigital or predigital writers do: among family and friends, in big, beautiful houses, with precious, irreplaceable objects.
This doesn't necessarily mean that no irreplaceable objects would be displayed on the main floor of the museum, but that some kind of evacuation mechanism or procedure would be created to ensure their swift protection or removal in the face of looming threats.
It would be suggested that great care needs to be taken if such an approach of stand-alone measurement were to be taken into citizen science; training and testing would need to be undertaken, because of the challenge of reproducibility and the risk of sampling irreplaceable objects.
Mud slides, fires, hurricanes, building collapses, theft, floods, sink holes, and especially hard disk drive crashes happen and usually take irreplaceable objects and files, especially photos, both physical and digital, with them.
But the problem isn't the shipping of the bones — irreplaceable and priceless objects regularly make their way through the museum circuit.
Millions of pounds' worth of irreplaceable art and sacred objects--paintings, candlesticks, lecterns, crosses, fonts--have been stolen and sold, often, it is said, to buyers in America.
While fine art insurance covers loss and damage, many of these objects are irreplaceable or would lose significant value if damaged.
