I want to make a modest proposal. I want to propose the foundation of a National Paper Museum. It's a back-of-the-envelope notion, a paper-fed pipe-dream. But it's not impossible. Museums are made of paper anyway, founded on blueprints and letters to the Times, and fuelled by ancient documents and handwritten catalogue entries. In the mid-19th century, Richard Owen, superintendent of natural history at the British Museum, decided that his area of specialisation needed its own space, and so he set about making his argument – on paper, in letters and in campaigns.
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