Ms. Nusse began her career illustrating textbooks and creating museum exhibitions.
When they design homes for clients, he said, "in essence, we create museums," meaning that every object on display is carefully considered.
Unveiled with fanfare in 2004, the scheme allots $15 billion to build and attract top hotels; to create museums and theme parks; and to vastly expand the national airline.
In the United States some of this is familiar from the now-dominant genre of "identity museums": ethnic, religious and immigrant groups create museums, testifying to their varied trials and triumphs.
He said he hoped that such a museum would reduce the pressure to create museums for different ethnic groups, like the National Museum of African American History and Culture, expected to open in 2015, and the proposed National Museum of the American Latino.
"The overarching aim is to create museums that promote artistic dialogue and get people to think about the way Islamic art is not just interwoven into the history of the region, but that of the world".
Such a designation, they say, would bring millions of federal dollars to create museums, draw tourists, and hasten a spotty revival campaign that started after the Great Falls was named a national historic landmark in 1976.
Scholars struggle to preserve history by writing books, archivists create museums to raise consciousness, memoirists bear witness, reopening old wounds in the belief that in pain is the preservation of memory.
Owners were required to register designated objects with newly created museums, which were granted first option of purchase in case of sale.
