It's like the computer history museum that closed

*Living Computer Museum

>there are tons of people who are "you can't just toss it" but somehow thy never want to take them off your hands themselves.

It's not really realistic to expect everyone that values something to also be in a position to house and care for it. Someone can acknowledge that something should be protected and displayed without taking on the burden of doing it themselves.

This whole "if it's so great why don't you take it" attitude that comes up anytime someone laments the lost of a cultural/historic/artistic item is just negativity for the sake of negativity.

>I totally understand the impulse but it's just not realistic to preserve everything.

Agreed, but many of the comments here go too far in trying to denigrate the folks expressing the impulse without being able to act upon it.

Someone needs to pay to preserve it and the majority of museum collections are in a basement someplace. I don't denigrate people who want to preserve some collection but I also don't think it's realistic for them to expect "someone" to just do it for them.