A Collector’s Dream: Creating Your Own Museum as a Legacy<br />Mr. Bidwell said that in the case of Transformer Station, the building and the art would go to the Cleveland Museum of Art after 15 years.<br />“We hired an architect, but after the building was built, we met with so many experts and consultants<br />that finally we used our own experience constructing the museum,” Mr. Halim, 74, said.<br />“We were a little naïve about how much work this would be,” Mr. Bidwell said.<br />“A tax-exempt private museum has a duty to provide a benefit to the public,” Mr. MacLellan said.<br />“I’ve dealt with many museums that have failed or are failing,” Mr. Walhimer said.<br />“A collector may say, ‘I want this material to be seen in perpetuity,’ but they don’t realize<br />that the type of expenses that are involved are significantly more than where they’re holding the works now,” said Gail Lord, a founder of Lord Cultural Resources, a cultural planning firm.
