[throwaway894345]

That’s a fascinating story, but your framing is perplexing—if it hadn’t become a museum it would have been yet another restaurant and presumably the man was compensated such that he could still have opened his restaurant in another building if he chose? Maybe you meant it humorously and I just missed the joke?

[ithkuil]

perhaps it's possible to combine the two things and have a historical themed trattoria-museum ?

[romanhn]

The good news is that this is the final outcome, basically. While the original site did become a museum, the owner bought a building next door and opened up a trattoria there (albeit almost twenty years after starting the dig). https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190807-a-trattoria-with...

[graeme]

"Who knows, maybe...."

Indicates a joke frame.