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Art museums are important public institutions. They attract large audiences, they are much discussed in the press, and they are expensive to create and run. And when the covid virus forced the closure of museums in Winter, 2020, they suffered a novel, totally unexpected economic crisis. But the roots of the true problems were already More

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