Mark said:
It's only a selling point if you think people will get on the plane only to see this one museum. I don' t think that'll happen, no matter where you put it. People will go to the museum if they are in the town for other reasons, but the number who take a special trip for it will be small.
In addition, any gain you make due to lower plane ticket sales will likely be at least partially lost to other expenses incurred by being in that town. Las Vegas real estate isn't cheap, and will mean higher admission prices.
This raises another concern - being lost in the morass of neon. There might be another major sci-fi attraction in the town, but you don't know for sure, and you don't even know what the exhibit is? That doesn't bode well for an exhibit that won't have the backing of a major production studio.
In Vegas, the museum would have to compete for attendance with all the glitzy attractions. As we have seen with television shows lately, science fiction generally doesn't compete well against more mainstream stuff. You're suggesting putting a small fish in a pretty darned big pond.
Seattle, on the other hand, apparently has a pretty good "geek flowthrough level". In the course of normal business, geeks come in and out of that city on a daily basis, and there is less competition for their leisure time. Sounds like a rasonable place to me.
