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Enzo Suma

Archeoplastica items on exhibit with National Geographic in 2022.

Polivetro was a popular glass cleaner from the 1960s-1970s that still washes up on the shores of Puglia, Italy.

A refillable bottle of perfumed powder, likely from the late 1950s or early 1960s, is likely one of the oldest items in the Archeoplastica collection.

A bottle of eye drops from the early 1970s.

The origins of the “Il Gobbo (the hunchback)” plastic artifact, likely from the early 1960s, remains a mystery despite crowdsourcing among Archeoplastica fans on Facebook and Instagram.

Enzo Suma, founder and curator of the Archeoplastica museum, with a sample from his collection.

A plastic sunscreen bottle from the early 1970s, which survived decades in the ocean before washing up on Italian shores, is part of the Archeoplastica museum collection.