Art Donors Increasingly Look to University Museums

College art museums are more likely to display donated works, keep collections together and incorporate them into the academic curriculum

Owners of large art collections often envision themselves eventually donating their works to a major museum, where the pieces can be viewed by the masses. But once such works become part of a museum’s massive permanent collection, they often end up in storage and rarely if ever displayed…

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