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It's the generic trouble with museums - concentrating all the irreplaceable stuff in one location. Like the Library of Alexandria.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
It's the generic trouble with museums - concentrating all the irreplaceable stuff in one location. Like the Library of Alexandria.
- adamsea 9y agoWhich can also be a problem with Libraries.
- goldenkey 9y agoHerman Goring and other Nazis pillaged the Louvre once France surrendered. Many of the pieces were found in their personal homes after the war but many went unrecovered. Aye..
- labster 9y agoThe alternative is that information is not discoverable, like old letters found in attics and ancient Egyptian tombs. Finally, with the advent of a the digital age, we can make data easy to find and have off-site backups. Still no good solution for physical artifacts, though.
- magduf 9y agoYep, but there aren't any good alternatives. Locking things up in private collections doesn't help society, and doesn't let professionals manage the relics and also ensure they're genuine, and research their place in our history. What should be done is to make sure museums are located in extremely safe places, both from natural forces (like sinkholes, hurricanes, etc.) and also from political problems (this means putting valuable artifacts in certain countries is probably a bad idea).