Egypt
- Figures On The U.s. Leg Of The Tutankhamun Tour
International Herald Tribune 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...
- Tutankhamun Ticket Sales Approaching Record Levels In Philadelphia
Philadelphia Business Journal To date, the Franklin Institute has sold 1.2 million tickets for "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opened Feb. 3 and closes Sept. 30. The previous record of 1.3 million visitors was set in 1977 when...
- Franklin Museum Welcomes Millionth Ticket Holder To Tutankhamun
Huliq.com Just weeks after celebrating its one millionth visitor of 2007, The Franklin Institute sold the one millionth ticket for “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," putting the museum on track to become the most successful venue on the...
- Tutankhamun - Closing Stats
http://tinyurl.com/8tqkz "With a closing rush, King Tut's tally at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reached 937,613 visitors, museum officials said Monday — the second-largest audience for any museum exhibition after the 1.25 million who saw...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...
Egypt
Exhibition: Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/2salwj (nj.com)
"Though the new Tut tour the past two years has appeared in art museums like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, as well as the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, it was turned down by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York be cause of the museum's policy against charging fees for special exhibitions. (The municipally supported Met has a system of suggested donations.)
Backers of the new tour hoped that the absence of the sarcophagus would not discourage real fans of Tut this time around, and by and large that has proved true. Al though the'76 tour garnered 8 million paying visitors and set records for a traveling exhibition, "The Golden Age of the Pharaohs" has already attracted more than a million viewers in both Chicago and Los Angeles, a good 200,000 more visitors apiece than either venue expected. That will not break the record of the first Tut tour, but it will more than achieve the financial goals of the new project."
Backers of the new tour hoped that the absence of the sarcophagus would not discourage real fans of Tut this time around, and by and large that has proved true. Al though the'76 tour garnered 8 million paying visitors and set records for a traveling exhibition, "The Golden Age of the Pharaohs" has already attracted more than a million viewers in both Chicago and Los Angeles, a good 200,000 more visitors apiece than either venue expected. That will not break the record of the first Tut tour, but it will more than achieve the financial goals of the new project."
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- Figures On The U.s. Leg Of The Tutankhamun Tour
International Herald Tribune 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...
- Tutankhamun Ticket Sales Approaching Record Levels In Philadelphia
Philadelphia Business Journal To date, the Franklin Institute has sold 1.2 million tickets for "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opened Feb. 3 and closes Sept. 30. The previous record of 1.3 million visitors was set in 1977 when...
- Franklin Museum Welcomes Millionth Ticket Holder To Tutankhamun
Huliq.com Just weeks after celebrating its one millionth visitor of 2007, The Franklin Institute sold the one millionth ticket for “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," putting the museum on track to become the most successful venue on the...
- Tutankhamun - Closing Stats
http://tinyurl.com/8tqkz "With a closing rush, King Tut's tally at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reached 937,613 visitors, museum officials said Monday — the second-largest audience for any museum exhibition after the 1.25 million who saw...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...