Lucy in Debt with Dollars

[stickmaker]

The six-month-long museum show featuring the Lucy fossils at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle lost about $1.25 million. Museum officials blame the recession, bad weather, and the presidential election for the lack of patrons.

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2009/03/woyannes-attempt-to-profit-from-lucy-failed/

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Comments

[solarbird]

We went to see it; it was a good exhibit. I really liked the Ethiopian history section, too. And Mr. Kebede is being an ass, it got way more coverage than most PSC shows, including news coverage.

The weather was really bad, tho' - we had 35cm of snow on the ground, and other people had even more. (A friend near Portland had 1.2 metres! And I know that people much closer but east of here had similar amounts.) And all that was during the holidays, which would've been prime visiting season.