Because previous generations preserved their art for us, Baryn Futa believes strongly that we owe it to future generations to do the came. He believes that we should preserve as much art as possible for the future and that is why art museums and art collectors are extremely important. Like most art collectors, Baryn Futa has comes to see his art collection as a very profitable and useful investment, but that isn’t why he does it. Because he believes that the arts are a necessary and defining part of any culture, art is important enough to preserve for future generations.
These types of realizations came late for Baryn Futa. He was retired when he began working at the Denver Art Museum and he was hit with a thunderbolt of sorts. He became smitten with art almost immediately and attended numerous arts classes and started his own art collection, which has grown to be very extensive and impressive over the years. By collecting art, he is investing in both the past and the future and he is preserving it for our descendants. It is obvious that the art of the past puts us in touch with our ancestors in a way that nothing else can. We look at the art and imagining what happened in the day.
In addition to his own collection, Baryn Futa holds memberships in many prominent art museums with impressive collections of their own, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and The Jewish Museum. As often as he can, Baryn loans pieces from his collection to museums. He wants to preserve art for the ages and that will only happen if more people to appreciate the arts as he does.