Do you have a collection that deserves to be seen by more than your family and friends? The solution is a museum that would accept collections from private individuals for display. Of course, there would need to be some vetting of the displays to ensure the overall museum is interesting to attendees. This seems like a natural idea for a high end insurance company like Chubb or Fireman's Fund to sponsor. They might give a preference to their customers and they could insure the collections while on display saving the owners insurance costs. Perhaps the museum could be a charitable organization and those that lend their collections for display could get a tax deduction. In any event they would have the satisfaction of a larger audience for all of their collecting work.
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Our local museum in Edmonds, WA does in fact display private collections for around three months at a time. Currently they have some fellows collection of military uniforms he's been collecting since 1950s or so.
Some times they are intertesting, some times not.