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Originally Posted by Electronic M
There are hundreds maybe thousands of museum worthy sets that aren't in museums. As long as their owners appreciate what they are and are preserving them then it's fine if they aren't in museums.... Better someone is appreciating them than they end up scrapped or rotting in the back room of a museum that won't display them (you'd be surprised how many interesting things museums have that they don't or only rarely display).
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That's an absurd thing to say. Museums have collections that don't all have a place out on the floor constantly. That's how museums work and is normal. Exhibits and works are rotated in and out to highlight different parts of the collection.
Museums are tasked with storing and preserving history and art for as long as possible for future generations. It is overly dramatic to say that undisplayed exhibits are "rotting in the back room" like they are locking stuff up in some Indiana Jones style government warehouse.