Kebutuhan mendesak akan keberadaan sebuah museum yang layak untuk dijadikan tempat penyimpanan Harta Karun mulai digaungkandisuarakan sejaksemenjak koleksi artefak ini diboyong pulang ke Turki.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/1491.cfm | title = Croesus: The poverty of treasure|author=Özgen Acar|author-link=Özgen Acar|publisher=[[Cumhuriyet]]| accessdate=2003-07-21}}</ref><!-- With the seizure by the authorities of ten other illegally excavated artifacts in 1998, further archaeological discoveries and the known presence of eight gold pieces that had appeared in 2000 during an exhibition in a [[Paris]] private gallery for which attempts for retrieval were yet to be made, a handsome collection of base consisting of a total of 375 pieces was already accumulated. But the small museum in [[Uşak]] where the collection was placed, more focused on storage of [[Ushak carpet]]s and operating under conditions of budgetary and staff restraints,<ref>The number of experts working in Turkish museums halved from 1,500 to 750 in the last ten years. {{cite web|url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48792|title=Croesus: Ten people charged in Croesus theft case|publisher=[[Turkish Daily News]]|accessdate=2003-07-21|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717031211/http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48792|archivedate=2006-07-17}}</ref> did not fully meet the requirements for the preservation of Karu Treasure. Doubts about the site's suitability were reinforced by the filing of legal action against museum staff regarding the 2007 theft. Ten people were initially accused in relation to the hippocamp's replacement with a fake; the museum's former director was the only one kept in [[Arrest|custody]]. -->
