Under an agreement drawn up by the Tennessee Legislature, state police archives gave 200 pieces of evidence to the museum to put on display.
The original tea bowl, on loan from a Tokyo museum, is on display in an adjacent gallery at the museum, and the original Crane Scroll, lent by the Kyoto National Museum, will be added to the exhibit on Sept. 19.
My arrival confirmed my worst fears: The gift shop, through which one must pass to visit the museum, had on display Japanese opalescent beer glasses and all the other tchotchkes admired by tourists who don't really visit museums to look at paintings.
They will remain at the museum, and on display, as part of the permanent collection.
It will then become a museum piece, on display at the space centre.
Among the cars the museum has on display are an 1854 model that ran on steam and Ferrari sports cars that can top 200 kilometers an hour.
Restored by the British-based David Chipperfield architects, the museum places on display everything from the writer's toothpicks to his blue-and-white-striped silk stockings.
A week ago, a Tokyo maritime museum placed on display the wreck of a North Korean spy boat that, according to the State Department's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, was " perhaps identical to D.P.R.K. vessels suspected of being engaged in drug smuggling".
O.K., Thatcher's pussycat-bowed blouses were perhaps not the ermine-trimmed mantles of the tsars or the jewel-encrusted finery of the maharajas, both subjects of V&A exhibits, but was her taste really any worse than Kylie Minogue's, whose gold hot pants the museum put on display in 2007?
A model replica of the new Arab museum went on display at its French parent gallery last year in an in an exhibition called 'The Birth of a Museum', which showcased a selection of what will eventually become the Louvre Abu Dhabi's permanent collection.
Texas, the first battleship turned into a museum, is on display at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, near Houston.
