The Lincoln statue from the Lincoln Memorial traipses about all over the Smithsonian complex. Amelia travels with Larry between buildings, though often in the company of the tablet (an element missing from Abraham Lincoln's modern-day wanderings). And of course, there is the famous exodus from the Museum of Natural History before the climax of the first movie.
The question raised by all this is, what is the tablet's range, and how does it affect exhibits after awakening them?
It's most logical to suspect that the tablet operates on a one-building basis when it comes to bringing things to life. Given that it really is magic and probably has the backing of the king of the gods, it would have been originally kept in a temple, its influence tailoring to that setting or possibly designed for it from the start. Larry mistakenly believes that the world's biggest museum is coming to life by thinking of the Smithsonian as one building when really it is nineteen, and he is proven wrong when the whole of Aerospace comes to life after he enters with the tablet and before that, when he and Amelia take the tablet into the Lincoln Memorial and Lincoln awakes (complete with a stretch and a yawn). Then evidence from the movies suggests that once animate, the exhibits remain animate until they either return to their places for sunrise or turn to dust.
So no, the world's biggest museum is not coming to life, at least, not all at once.
Next on "For the Love of Night at the Museum": the symbolic reason why the gate needs the tablet to function. I'm putting on the hat I found in my high school humanities class and tying these artifacts to the Brothers Egypt who own them.
Countdown: 363 Days to NATM 3.
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