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- Exhibition: Tut In Toronto Drew More Than 400,000 Visitors
The Globe and Mail (Guy Dixon) King Tut still pulls them in, but not quite like 1979. The exhibit King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, which is closing this week at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario after a 24-week run, attracted more than...
- Art Gallery Of Ontario Extends King Tut's Reign
Art Daily The Art Gallery of Ontario will extend its blockbuster exhibition King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs for two additional weeks through May 2 due to high demand for tickets. To date, the Gallery has sold over 300,000 tickets to the...
- Tutankhamun And Today's Economy
Thanks to Stan Parchin for the following articles. The first is dated 30th December, and is entitled "Economy Keeping King Tut Down". It suggests that ticket sales for Tutankhamun in the US are down, probably due to the economic situation. The second...
- Tutankhamun Breaks Ticket Sale Records In U.s.
The Canadian Press The Franklin Institute Science Museum's blockbuster King Tut show has turned out to be its most popular exhibit ever.Officials said Monday that more than 1.3 million people visited the exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of...
- Tutankhamun Is A Big Draw Right To The End
The Philadelphia Inquirer With only one weekend to go, the Franklin Institute wanted to cram every last second it could into its nearly eight-month King Tut exhibit. So it did just that. The doors to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs have...
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Exhibition: AGO banks on King Tut to boost attendance
CTV.ca Toronto
The AGO is banking on this exhibit to boost attendance which has been dwindling since it reopened last November after a year-long shut down due to a $276 million renovation.
Despite that renovation receiving critical acclaim and being designed by celebrity architect Frank Gehry, the gallery has seen only 700,000 people in the year since it opened, versus the usual one million annual visitors it used to get before the construction.
The gallery has struggled financially lately as well, and announced in March that it planned to lay off 100 employees, blaming the economy.
"What I can really hope is... that people will come, they'll be intrigued, they'll see out of the corner of their eye something else that grabs their attention and think to themselves 'I will come back,'" Matthew Teitelbaum, AGO director and CEO told CTV Toronto.
- Exhibition: Tut In Toronto Drew More Than 400,000 Visitors
The Globe and Mail (Guy Dixon) King Tut still pulls them in, but not quite like 1979. The exhibit King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, which is closing this week at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario after a 24-week run, attracted more than...
- Art Gallery Of Ontario Extends King Tut's Reign
Art Daily The Art Gallery of Ontario will extend its blockbuster exhibition King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs for two additional weeks through May 2 due to high demand for tickets. To date, the Gallery has sold over 300,000 tickets to the...
- Tutankhamun And Today's Economy
Thanks to Stan Parchin for the following articles. The first is dated 30th December, and is entitled "Economy Keeping King Tut Down". It suggests that ticket sales for Tutankhamun in the US are down, probably due to the economic situation. The second...
- Tutankhamun Breaks Ticket Sale Records In U.s.
The Canadian Press The Franklin Institute Science Museum's blockbuster King Tut show has turned out to be its most popular exhibit ever.Officials said Monday that more than 1.3 million people visited the exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of...
- Tutankhamun Is A Big Draw Right To The End
The Philadelphia Inquirer With only one weekend to go, the Franklin Institute wanted to cram every last second it could into its nearly eight-month King Tut exhibit. So it did just that. The doors to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs have...