The Buffalo Museum of Science’s sand mandala isn’t being shown because the workers wanted to move it, and they didn’t hold it even; so, it shifted.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama states in Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment, “This transient and impermanent nature of reality is not to be understood in terms of something coming into being, remaining for a while and then ceasing to exist. That is not the meaning of impermanence at the subtle level. Subtle impermanence refers to the fact that the moment things and events come into existence, they are already impermanent in nature; the moment they arise, the process of their disintegration has already begun. When something comes into being from its causes and conditions, the seed of its cessation is born along with it. It is not that something comes into being and then a third factor or condition causes its disintegration. That is not how to understand impermanence. Impermanence means that as soon as something comes into being, it has already started to decay.”
If the monks hadn’t made it out of sand, the workers couldn’t have ruined the mandala. You have to be careful of those crafty Tibetan monks. 
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