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Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum

The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose.
The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Auguste Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose. Above,<em> The Thinker</em> (Le Penseur) is pictured ahead of the Musée Rodin's reopening in November 2015.

Museums around the world are struggling because of the coronavirus: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is projecting $100 million in losses this year, and even France's publicly funded Louvre has lost 40 million euros following a four-month closure.

in the southwest corner of Paris has a unique economic model to keep it

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