I do not like the idea of voting. In a 'real' museum you have the
curators who are responsible for the collection. They choose what
is interesting, either in itself or in combination with other work.
I would definitely prefer a small group of curators, and at least
one of them should have some arts background (I mean knowledge of,
not necessary an artist herself).

In most museums, most of the work is in the basement, for an on-line
museum this does not have to be so, but if anybody can submit and
everything must be accessable then things will explode rapidly.
This would not be too much of a problem, except that with most
providers the space and bandwith must be paid someway.
I can imagine a curator would decide that an 5MB animation is worth
including but that would be a tradeof with other works. I do not
think the whole world must be able to vote on that Especially if
that means 42 2-10MB animations must be on-line to vote for (and
when and how will they be removed if they get not enough votes?).

In short: have a group of curators that decide what will be on
display in the Museum. Have everthing else on a backup that may
or may not be on-line. Find a way to make some money to pay for
the bandwith (sell posters in the museum shop, sell a catalogue
on CD, create screensavers etc.). But above all: be professional.

   Andrel

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