Obviously neither of us can speak for them, but somehow I kind of doubt the people at the church would use such charged and possessive language. I would think they would be glad to see it restored (looked like it was in bad shape) and bringing joy to more people in a museum.
And it seems even that the museum is a former church where it stood anyway? Did I get that right?
> The friars were supportive of restoration efforts on Nelli’s “Last Supper,” but they didn’t want to permanently release it from their refectory. “They saw it as part of their day-to-day life and were very concerned that I and other art historians and officials would want to remove it from their dining room,” Nelson recalls of the monks’ attitude when he saw the painting in the 1990s. “Which is exactly what happened.”
A part of it (the so-called monastero nuovo or "new monastery" on the side of the station) has been for almost 100 years rented to the Carabinieri that had there a School for Officers, that recently moved so that the buildings were returned to the city:
And it seems even that the museum is a former church where it stood anyway? Did I get that right?