The museum's committee on purchasing is composed of art critics, art historians, and art collectors, as well as art dealers. It must make extremely prudent choices of which works of art to buy in order to ensure that these choices are consonant with the overall goals of the museum.
然而，藝術何價？真正的名家名作，價錢往往高得令人咋舌，台北美術館若只靠政府編列的經費來收購藝術品，必有捉襟見肘之苦。