+21 If you're rich enough, the entire museum is a gift shop. amirite?

by Anonymous 4 years ago

If you're rich enough, the entire museum is a tax write off

by Anonymous 4 years ago

More true

by Anonymous 4 years ago

If you're British enough, the entire world is your gift shop.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Sorta true. Some of the pieces are not for sale at any price.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Other than the most famous items like the Mona Lisa, a lot of the pieces are owned by private collectors who loan them to the museum to display.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Art museums, yes. History museums less so.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Doesn't that just support my point, tho? Some of the pieces, whether owned by a museum or someone else, are not for sale at any price.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

A small fraction of works are loaned, and then often they are on loan as a promised gift or as a fractional gift for extended write offs. Most loans to museums come in the form of temporary loans for a specific exhibit, and even then those loans usually come from other museums. Space is incredibly expensive for museums, as is insurance costs. It is not in a museums best interest to spend large amounts of their operating budget to take care of other people's works of art unless there is an assumption or explicit agreement that the work will end up in the institutions permanent collection.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Or you could just forgo purchasing them and pillage. It worked for great grandpa.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

My Great Grandpa was the one who was pillaged not the pillager lol.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Yes, I'll take the dinosaur bones. Please and thank you.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Or stealthy enough.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

True

by Anonymous 4 years ago

World*

by Anonymous 4 years ago

if you're quik enough its too

by Anonymous 4 years ago

I want to be that rich.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

If you're poor enough, you're selling stuff in the actual gift shop.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

And the entire women's shelter is a brothel!

by Anonymous 4 years ago