Another option--which can also increase your fossil's value--is to lend it to a museum for study.
It has always been a study collection, not a museum and is open only by appointment.
The museum also opened a research centre to study American Modernism.
Fernando Checa, a leading art historian and director of the Prado Museum in Madrid, recently published a study on Philip II as a Renaissance prince.
"Identifying the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who brought us everyone else's voice, is a major moment in the study of history, " said museum director John Gray.
He is a senior research associate of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History.
Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, whose position is the first endowed curatorship dedicated to the study of jewelry in a U.S. museum.
The purchase of the two paintings will allow the museum to "forge ahead with plans for a major exhibition and study centre", he said.
The museum housed in this fortified castle of the colonial period is dedicated to the study of navigation, underwater archaeology and maritime history.
Years ago I set out to purchase museum-quality ancient art from private hands, to care for it, study the works, keep them in trust and display and lend them.
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Mark Norell, a prominent paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who didn't participate in the study, said he doesn't know if the upright-posture myth is as widespread as the new study indicates.
Farouk Hosni said the new museum would be the largest in the world, and had required "years of study".
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