I would absolutely love to help realise the dream of establishing a virtual museum to educate the world about technology in a physical, obvious and intuitive manner.
I have a proposal for the community. And it's rather tough to swallow but bear with me. I suggest you scrap the idea of doing it in Minecraft and instead help develop another technology in which to create the museum.
There are a number of reasons I suggest this but I will outline the most important.
I feel Notch is heading in another direction with the development of the game than the direction we need to realise this dream. For some time he will be focusing solely on removing SMP bugs and fixing minecarts rather than implementing technology to help facilitate the creation of an online virtual museum. The development of Minecraft is not open and driven by the priorities of Notch himself rather than those of the community; on occasion Notch blatantly ignored the priorities of thousands of people who have PAID for the game.
Secondly, whilst pri