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Yes, I'll take the dinosaur bones. Please and thank you.
Or stealthy enough.
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Sorta true. Some of the pieces are not for sale at any price.
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.
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.
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.
Art museums, yes. History museums less so.
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I want to be that rich.
And the entire women's shelter is a brothel!
If you're rich enough, the entire museum is a tax write off
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Or you could just forgo purchasing them and pillage. It worked for great grandpa.
My Great Grandpa was the one who was pillaged not the pillager lol.
If you're poor enough, you're selling stuff in the actual gift shop.
If you're British enough, the entire world is your gift shop.
if you're quik enough its too