Here where I live, the Regional Superintendent was a boozer.
The Inspector has a high school degree (literature) and it's easier to speak with the Pope than with her.
People working in the offices of the Archaeological Superintendance have months of holidays and very elastic working times.
There're WONDERS stored in the Museum's stores, and no money to put them on display.
Meanwhile the University of Rome found an unicum in Europe, but they can't find 20'000 € to promote the third season of excavation.
Pompeii and the Coliseum are falling down.
Archaeological cooperatives pay a wage of 4 €/hour and give you the money 6 months after the end of the excavation.
Oh and shipwrecks - there're tons of amphorae and other stuff under 3 meters of water, the relative Archaeologist knows this, but won't recover them unless she finish an article on them - which she begun writing in 1980 (for real!!).
After all this, buying antiquities may have the sound of a romantic revenge, but it's not
We just need (in my opinion) a close control from someone who's not a public institution, we may enjoy the money and control of a private sponsor, while keeping the usability of our wonders free as a public good.
Greetings,
Mauro.