Comment by 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.
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.
Or money. Note the Living Computer Museum basically collapsing after Paul Allen's death.
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.
The same thing basically happened with Malcolm Forbes' collections. It's perfectly normal for heirs to just not value things you've collected in the same way you did.
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