Gas tokens to pay for Tutankhamun tickets
Star-Telegram (Eva-Marie Ayala)
This is a rather different approach to encouraging parents to whisk their children to potentially educational exhibitions.
Fuel prices shouldn’t stop Tarrant County students from seeing the pharaoh in Dallas.
So organizers of the exhibit "King Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs" are offering Tarrant County-area schools a $100 gas card to help offset the cost of field trips to the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibit opens Oct. 3.
"We’re seeing many schools cut back on field trips due to the rising cost of gas," said Bryan Harris, a vice president of Arts and Exhibition International, who organized the show. "We want to make sure teachers have this rare opportunity to see this with their students."
The show’s main sponsor, Northern Trust, has set aside $200,000. The offer is also open to any school that must make a round trip of at least 100 miles. A similar offer is available to groups of 40 or more.
See the above page for more, including a great photograph of a group of kids all wearing Tutankhamun nemes headgear.
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