Since its inception, the museum branch has been fully funded by its former host.
Fully restored and completely assembled, it went on display at the newly opened Smithsonian air museum branch outside Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia.
Last month, news leaked out that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the architect Frank O. Gehry were developing preliminary sketches and a model for a new museum branch that they hoped to build on the 15-acre site in the Hudson River at Houston Street, currently a 2,000-car 2,000-cararage.
Cleveland's renowned and revered Museum of Art has joined with a donor/collector couple to refashion an old plant into a new museum "branch" in Ohio City, across the Cuyahoga River.
B5 Neediest Cases B4 ARTS E1-12 Paris Museums Branching Out The Louvre and the Georges Pomidou Center are both preparing to open branches outside of Paris, following a growing trend.
A spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds said the figure of Mr. Jackson, who died on June 25, was loaned on July 2 to the museum's branch in Washington branch because fans there had requested it.
In other cities where the museum has branches, visitors seem to have fewer boundary issues.
"I thought it was too tacky," said Mr. Krens, who has helped make the Guggenheim a global museum with branches in Berlin, Venice and Bilbao, Spain.
By running a global network of museums — with branches in Venice, Berlin, and Bilbao, Spain, as well as a planned museum in Abu Dhabi expected to open in 2013 —the cost of exhibitions can be shared, Mr. Armstrong said.
"We're in downtown Stamford, which is right where we want to be," said Cynthia Roznoy, the museum's branch manager and curator.
That prompted Dr. Crew to discuss it on Tuesday at a meeting of the museum's branch of the Smithsonian-wide Congress of Scholars, a group of curators, scholars and other researchers.
