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But a museum doesn’t ask you to “buy” an exhibit… The misleading aspect of digital “ownership “ is in the use of the word buy.

If the Museum originally got it from someone who stole it from somewhere else, there's a reasonable argument to be made.

James Acaster's comedy bit on the british museum comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY&pp=ygUcamFtZXMgY...

A museum isn't offering a purchase.

Also, this is the same old false equivalence - taking a copy of something is NOT the same as taking the original, where only one instance of an item can exist and taking it deprives the original owner of their possessional.

No. Copyright infringement is not legally theft.

Correct, penalties for copyright infringement are far more draconian than theft.