 When in 1819 Reuvens directly approached the minister of education for funding, he discovered that this straight line to the government was a much more fruitful way of gaining funds than through the trustees.The Ministry of Education paid for casts of the Elgin Marbles and their transportation to the Netherlands, without having the university involved.Reuvens quickly added several other university collections of antiquities to the Papenbroek Collection, and thereby extended the variety to include Egyptian artefacts.