Comment by whiplash451

They don't use public money to produce them (and maintain the museum).

It is self-funded. Public, but self-funded.

So this has nothing to do with misspent public money.

The Rodin Museum is a piece of jewel in Paris that exists only because Rodin himself decided for things to be run that way on his deathbed.

The wish of the artist overrules the wishes of random people that "consume" his work.