Comment ‘Archives are the closest thing we have to a time machine’ Edward Behrens 31 March 2025 THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Members of the Monuments Men saving three Nazi-looted paintings from Neuschwanstein Castle, Füssen, in 1945. Photo: Bettmann via Getty Images Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Already a subscriber? Contact us for help with your access Keep reading from just$16 every 3 months Subscribe today for unlimited and exclusive access to the most incisive art writing available. Every issue delivered directly to you Unlimited reading on the website – updated every day Access to exclusive web only articles Over 200 digital issues in the Apollo archive Email newsletters every week Or Unlock three articles a month Register for free to read more REGISTER Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Recommended for you In ‘Archive 81’, restoring VHS tapes turns out to be a complete nightmare In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong? Towering over the Thames, a heavenly new home for Lambeth Palace Library One of the world’s greatest collections of medieval manuscripts now has state-of-the-art accommodation, writes Michael Prodger Face to face with the Gurlitt hoard The paintings that Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Third Reich art dealer, kept hidden for decades are now out in the open – so what happens next?
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‘Archives are the closest thing we have to a time machine’
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In ‘Archive 81’, restoring VHS tapes turns out to be a complete nightmare
In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?
Towering over the Thames, a heavenly new home for Lambeth Palace Library
One of the world’s greatest collections of medieval manuscripts now has state-of-the-art accommodation, writes Michael Prodger
Face to face with the Gurlitt hoard
The paintings that Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Third Reich art dealer, kept hidden for decades are now out in the open – so what happens next?