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Posted By: Paul

I think Jared hit the nail on the head. Museums refuse to just display stuff. At a minimum, they have to carefully label every item so that everyone knows what they are looking at, which is a labor intensive task. And more often, they want to tell a story, as Jared said, which is even more labor intensive.

That's all well and good. If the museum needs to tell a story, great, more power to them. Sometimes (rarely) the story they tell actually adds value to the experience of visiting the museum. But why is the choice between "full story" and "basement"? Can't they just put a glass wall in the front of their basement and let everyone peer through it? They can tell their story upstairs, and let the public look at everything else downstairs.