“Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” ended its seven-month run in the Field Museum on Monday having drawn 1,044,743 paying customers, according to the museum’s preliminary count.
That attendance was a record for a special-ticket show in the Field, easily surpassing the previous high of 362,484 for “Chocolate,” which ran there for 10 1/2 months in 2002.
The first King Tut exhibition held in the Field, in 1977, still holds the museum’s attendance record, attracting some 1.35 million people over four months. Admission to that show did not require a separate purchase.
The Field estimated its total attendance for 2006 at nearly 2.14 million, the highest level since 2.36 million in 2002, when the T. rex Sue was introduced there. The museum’s record attendance for a year remains 3.27 million in 1933, when a World’s Fair was held in Chicago.
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