KING TUT EXHIBITION AT PHILADELPHIA’S FRANKLIN INSTITUTE MAKES HISTORY WITH 1.29 MILLION VISITORS
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs attracted nearly 4 million visitors during 27 month U.S. tour


PHILADELPHIA (October 1, 2007) — Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs completed its run today at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia as the most popular museum exhibition in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s history. Just shy of 1.3 million visitors since its February 2007 opening, The Franklin Institute was the most-visited venue of the current North American tour of the boy king, making it the second-most successful touring exhibition stop in U.S. history — bested only by 1979’s King Tut tour visit at The Field Museum in Chicago. MORE ...

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KING TUT TOUTS MORE THAN 937,000 VISITORS
46% First Time Visitors to Museum

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced that 937,613 people visited Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs during its run at the museum from June 16 through November 20, 2005. Nearly half of surveyed attendees, 46%, said that the exhibition motivated them to visit LACMA for the first time and almost a quarter, 24%, stated that they had not been to the museum in over two years. The exhibition also proved to be an educational success, drawing 150,000 children, with 60,000 of them brought to the exhibition through school tours. MORE ...

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