“We want to make sure that we can act on it and react on it swiftly and diligently,” said Hollein, who first announced the initiative in an article titled “Reflections on The Met Collection and Cultural Property,” which was posted on the museum’s website.
Despite some risks that art and artifacts may be lost/damaged in the process or end up not being viewable to the general public, I still think this is a good and important thing for museums to do. There was a recent series of Freakonomics podcast episodes that dealt with this topic if anyone is interested in casually hearing more about this trend. Episodes 541-543