[Boatanchors] Boatanchor Ennui--The Museum "Solution"

[Don Merz]

Yes, but this is an exception case. Gordon's collections were exceptional collections. Most of us haven;t got anything more rare than maybe a Hallicrafters SX-115. Try finding a museum that wants it for anything other than to sell to help pay next months rent, ALL the museums are absolutely overwhelmed with donations of stuff people think is rare. But mostly it is far, far from rare. 
And the truth is that museums are closing, consolidating and selling off major portions of collections due to lack of fundable display space--as with the sad fate of Don Wallace's W6AM museum. 
Gordon's case is truly exceptional. For the rest of us, museums are not a viable solution. As someone said, enjoy your stuff. Don;t get to the point where your stuff "owns you" instead of vice-versa. Then you won't sweat it when no one seems to want it after you. 
73 Don Merz N3RHT 

      From: gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net>
 To: Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com>; David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> 
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
 Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2016 9:15 AM
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 All: 
      If you care about what you collect, figure out where it can go after you can no longer care for it. There are museums for spark plugs, types of barbed wire, etc. etc. (If no one care for something enough to preserve it long-time, I suppose there is no hope, though 100 years from now someone will realize what was missed) 
      I gave 12,468 blueprints of racing cars and engines, 1919-1976, to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. Best place I could find. I gave 4,000 + pieces of Command set gear to the National Air & Space Museum, back in the 1980s. 
      Find some place that cares - maybe the Eight Air Force Museum in Savannah? The Air Force Museum? Navy Museum in Pensacola? Aircraft museums, etc. etc. 
      My kids could hardly care less about what I collect, including a sterling silver service for 12 that has been in the family since 1898. But I care. Someone cares, somewhere. 
   - Gordon Eliot White
  
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