And at the highest end of the market, of course, there's Anthony d'Offay, who, despite closing his gallery and "retiring" in 2001, has been actively setting up museum and gallery shows from his office in Dering Street.
Through his work in education and setting up Holocaust museums, Dr. Gottschalk spent a lifetime doing exactly that.
(He said he was puzzled about one thing. "It's the beginning of Reconstruction," he said. "In this valuable space, why were they sending down pickles?") A public company, Odyssey sells stock and hopes to turn a profit mainly by setting up shipwreck museums and selling coins.
In that time, he radically transformed anatomy teaching at the university, improved the Aberdeen medical school; set up the museum of anatomy; and helped to lead the reconstruction of the Aberdeen Infirmary.
"It's much too soon to be setting up a museum, because the historical events in question are too recent".
"We really don't have anything to display, and I don't know that we would," said Alan Weinstock, the current Pilgrim State director who first thought of setting up a museum here.
Around the time when I was setting up the museum, I also began writing a new novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, and taking long night-time walks around the poorer neighbourhoods at the heart of the city, home to the hero of this new novel, a street vendor.
The foundation says the project would cost no more than setting up a museum, an opera theatre, or academic building - all of which succeed in attracting the support of private benefactors.
At the same time, he dreamed of setting up a museum to showcase the same objects, even though, at first, he admitted it sounded as if he had "lost the plot": "At first, whenever anyone asked what I was going to do with the stuff that I was accumulating, I was unable to answer them.
Set up near the museum's entrance was a small wooden stand that looked like a puppet theater and had a sign describing it as the Homeless Museum of Art.
