It would have been appropriate for another wealthy person to just buy the museum out entirely / pay the ones closing it down / and reopen it. Preferably then

It would have been appropriate for another wealthy person to just buy the museum out entirely / pay the ones closing it down / and reopen it. Preferably then donated the entire collection to some non-profit or whatever other way to organize. and include some clause that selling them off is not possible. That person being Gates would have made sense. But obviously this did not happen. As philanthropy.