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Article: The man who has made this the UK's top ticket ; The Terracotta Army exhibition has closed with record figures, making the British Museum the second most visited in the world. London is a modern city, says director Neil MacGregor, and we try to reflect that
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2008
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NEIL MacGregor, director of the British Museum for the past six
years, has never looked more eager as he bounds into his magnificent
slate-blue office in Bloomsbury. Today he will announce two new
glittering statistics of the kind that have characterised his reign
since he took over in 2002.
First comes news of the record-breaking 850,619 visitors for
China's Terracotta Army exhibition, which closed on Sunday after a
triumphant six-month run, making it the most successful show since
the BM's own Treasures of Tutankhamun in 1972 (at 1.7 million
visitors, still unbeaten as the most successful exhibition in the UK
but it ran for a year). This is more than double the 400,000
predicted. Queues ...