![]() ![]() ![]() They understood that sharing would, in the long-term, create greater pleasure and impact than possessing the object privately ever could. These museum founders realized that preserving objects for future generations and allowing these objects to tell important stories about human artistic, scientific or cultural endeavors and humanity’s place in the natural world was a noble enterprise. Many museums today had their origins as private collections, but something changed in those collector’s mindsets that put them on the course to embrace the public good. They may purchase objects as a form of financial investment or to have the gratification of possessing unique items and displaying them to demonstrate their artistic sensitivities and sophistication or just to impress.įor museums, the focus should be outward. Private collectors focus inward and act for their own personal interests and pleasure. Beyond this, however, the similarities should and do differ, at least on paper, because of the underlying motivation for collecting. ![]() On the surface, museums and private collectors have shared aims both love to collect objects of interest and to flaunt their best finds. ![]()
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