Museums—public collections dedicated to preserving, researching, exhibiting and occasionally cultivating what they collect—are modern institutions responding to modern needs.
"To pull people into the museum, you need tricks," said Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes. "If you feel the need for contemplation, you buy a Rembrandt."
Today an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed to the Associated Press that the suspects in the 1990 theft of 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston—believed to…