[Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

[Lars Aronsson]

David Gerard wrote:

> (The real problem, IMO, is funding - that governments tell 
> galleries they have to make money from exploiting the works in 
> their possession.

Ah, but do governments really say this?  I think it's museum 
people who want to "play business" because business is glamorous 
and state-owned administration is dull and grey. I don't think 
governments originally came up with this idea.

Someone should do research and cite sources.  Wikipedia's article 
on museums, or the history of museums, should have a section about 
this annoying trend. I guess museum journals of the recent decades 
should have articles that can be cited as sources.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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