As a guide to action feasible for small museums the leaflet emphasizes safe storage of those specimens selected as having historical value. For costumes it suggests how to make hangers reasonably comparable to those used by Colonial Williamsburg out of ordinary wire coat hangers, broomsticks, cotton quilting and other readily obtainable materials. It suggests corrugated cartons lined with acid-free paper and provided with a mylar window and ventilation holes in lieu of expensive plastic boxes for flat textiles. The storage facilities for rugs, bedspreads and trimmings at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum offer similar prototypes for improvised measures.