Most art that hang in American and/or worldwide museums are duplicates or replicas. For insurance purposes originals are stored in vaults. Or - in a lot of cases the originals are sold behind closed doors to the wealthiest of wealthy while a forgery of an original will hang on the wall of a local museum. And hardly anyone is the wiser.
For example, almost every piece art and piece of furniture that is in the Hearst Castle on the coast of California is a duplicate/replica. They can’t afford to risk the remoteness of the castle catching on fire due to wildfires or being vandalized/stolen by the thousands of visitors every year so almost everything you see on display has been replaced by a copy. They started this duplication “replacement” process back in the late 1960s.
Most art that hang in American and/or worldwide museums are duplicates or replicas. For insurance purposes originals are stored in vaults. Or - in a lot of cases the originals are sold behind closed doors to the wealthiest of wealthy while a forgery of an original will hang on the wall of a local museum. And hardly anyone is the wiser.
For example, almost every piece art and piece of furniture that is in the Hearst Castle on the coast of California is a duplicate/replica. They can’t afford to risk the remoteness of the castle catching on fire due to wildfires or being vandalized/stolen by the thousands of visitors every year so almost everything you see on display has been replaced by a copy. They started this duplication “replacement” process back in the late 1960s.