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Comment by rasz

1 year ago

> But he still couldn't get rid of it until this guy came along

Yep. There are always droves of "it belongs in a museum" crowds, but when you ask if they want it there is only silence.

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gyomu  1 year ago

The sad reality is that there are countless more things in the world that belong in museums than there is museum space/staff to properly take care of it.

  • syntheticnature  1 year ago

    Or money. Note the Living Computer Museum basically collapsing after Paul Allen's death.

    • walrus01  1 year ago

      This was, sadly, a conscious choice made by Allen long before his death. Same as with his airplane and tank collection. He had plenty of time and legal advice to set it up with an endowment that could allow for its continued yearly operational budget and chose not to do so. His heirs don't care about his personal toy collection so it's been sold off.

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ghaff  1 year ago

On any thread where the topic of various "collectibles" that surely someone wants comes up, there are tons of people who are "you can't just toss it" but somehow thy never want to take them off your hands themselves.

I totally understand the impulse but it's just not realistic to preserve everything.

  • Suppafly  1 year ago

    >there are tons of people who are "you can't just toss it" but somehow thy never want to take them off your hands themselves.

    It's not really realistic to expect everyone that values something to also be in a position to house and care for it. Someone can acknowledge that something should be protected and displayed without taking on the burden of doing it themselves.

    This whole "if it's so great why don't you take it" attitude that comes up anytime someone laments the lost of a cultural/historic/artistic item is just negativity for the sake of negativity.

    >I totally understand the impulse but it's just not realistic to preserve everything.

    Agreed, but many of the comments here go too far in trying to denigrate the folks expressing the impulse without being able to act upon it.

    • ghaff  1 year ago

      Someone needs to pay to preserve it and the majority of museum collections are in a basement someplace. I don't denigrate people who want to preserve some collection but I also don't think it's realistic for them to expect "someone" to just do it for them.