Food products in museum collections

We have received a prop from the play "Beauty and the Beast" which
has sugar cubes attached to paper.  What is the best way to store
this to protect it from disintegrating (is this possible?), and to
protect the museum from insects, mice, etc.?

Ellin Burke
Collections Manager
Museum of the City of New York


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