Europe's museums selling off masterpieces
With government subsidies being cut back, they need income from art sales to close budget gaps, make repairs or finance expansions
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Münster, Germany
THE director of the art museum here dreads the idea of losing some of his town's biggest cultural attractions. He worries about a Henry Moore sculpture that has been on exhibition for almost 40 years, knowing it could vanish along with Renaissance panels and Eduardo Chillida benches in a sale to settle government debts.
"There's an expression in German: 'Don't sell your family silver'," said the director, Hermann Arnhold of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History. "Would you sell the story of your family? If you sell important art works, that means selling a part of your history."
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