"The museum encourages visitors to use their phones to share and engage with museum content while here.
This utopia seems a little far off, not least because social networks are currently geared up for inane water-cooler banter that doesn't always sit comfortably with 'serious' museum content.
The museum's emphasis on online engagement has led to educational tools such as ArtBabble, a video portal for art museum content.
In July, Mr. Rogers said, Christie's in New York will auction much of the rest of the museum contents, including the preserved palominos and a Pontiac Bonneville with six-shooters for door handles.
For example, Sellers (1980, pp 309 310) indicates that the mammoth was on display from February 2 to March 4, 1848 and that a catalogue for the sheriff's sale of the museum contents printed on June 8 did not list the mastodon.
Some design features are a tribute to the museum's content.
Instead, despite its $20 entry fee, it has had that many in six months, according to Michael Matthews, the museum's content manager.
The museum's content is still in the early stage of development, since the institution is not expected to open until 2008.
For his part, Mr. Batistatos said he had never learned that Mr. Scalf objected to the museum's content until two years after the tour, when Mr. Scalf filed a lawsuit.
The favoured name back then, understood to be Science Museum North, "made no reference to the museum's content, nor 'national' status", the minutes reveal, but by capitalising on the 'science museum' name "had the potential to attract significant funding and was flexible enough to cover a range of topics".
Thanks to an agreement with the Royal Institute of British Architecture in London, the displays will always contain a selection of original Palladio drawings (of which RIBA has the largest collection in the world), shown in rotation both for conservation reasons and regularly to renew the museum's content.
