Thought the same. It doesn't seem it has historical value either. For that, a microfilm would've been enough --the objective should be to preserve, not to fetishize; but this looks like a relic of the Secular Church of Science. Come to touch the same pages which Einstein's Divine Pen wrote onto!
Seems that, for all our skepticism, enlightenment and theories of relativity, we just went and exchanged atheist saints for religious martyrs. The irony is delicious...