What happens to old Royal Palaces?

Question

Im curious, what happens to all those fantastic Palaces after a Monarchy has been overthrown...

Take Catherine Palace, Alexander Palace, Pavlovsk Palace, and the Summer and Winter Palaces, all of Russia for example. Since there is no Imperial families to reside in these Palaces, do they get sold privately, set up as museums or are they still owned by the state?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

they bocome museums or governement buildings

Answer 2

They often become museums. In many cases, the owners who inherit than cannot afford to maintain them, so they are donated to the State, as the William Randolph Hearst family did with his La Casa Encanta in California, now a State Park. In Europe, some are retained by the family who keep only a few rooms for their own use and open the rest to the public to view for an admission fee. A few are acquired by very wealthy buyers for their own use, such as the one in Maastricht, Netherlands, now occupied by André Rieux. Best of all IMHO is Hampton Court Palace, where you can walk in the rooms lived in by King Henry VIII and look for the rooms where the King James Bible was compiled - the palace now maintained by the British Government.