绿叶鸟网(www.lvyeniao.cn)原创整理的 > 考研英语作文 From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant ture. In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so. The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration rywhere - . With collections expanding, with the needs and nctions of museums changing, empty has become a very precious commodity. Probably nowhere in the country is this true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strenen its collections. Deaccessing - or selling off - works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle gallery , rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage. Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage , howr," the museum has no plan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fif years," according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president.
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