And the Sanxingdui, also in Sichuan and one of the great museum destinations in China, is a reminder that there are grand alternatives to the terracotta warriors in Xi'an.
The Archway's creators did not necessarily envision the museum as a destination.
The destination museum — part cathedral, part tourist trap, and altogether an art work in itself — has become the crowning emblem of our globalist era of competing polities and economies.
Once considered more of a refueling pit stop between exhibits than an actual culinary destination, museum restaurants have finally arrived.
The push toward making museums a nighttime destination is "part and parcel of museums attempting to reach out to new audiences," said Bruce J. Altshuler, the director of New York University's program in museum studies.
Will the museum make itself a destination for the international, contemporary art cognoscenti?
Should Berra acquire a home plate from the old Stadium, his museum is its likely destination.
And it makes the museum a modern-art destination in a way that it has never quite been before.
There is talk of setting up an ice museum, says Klaus Berg of Destination Disko, an outfit charged with co-ordinating tourism in the area.
Over at the Palace Museum, former home of the Omani sultans of Zanzibar, there is an acknowledgment that every good destination and museum needs a human interest story.
