Museum on pace for attendance record
In February, 17,839 people attended the Portland Museum of Art, eclipsing the previous attendance record for the month.
In February 2000, 17,519 people showed up to see an Ansel Adams photography show. This February, the major exhibition was "Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography." It remains on view through March 22.
"It's been more an event than an exhibition," said the museum's chief curator, Thomas Denenberg.
During the First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 6, almost 3,500 attended the exhibition.
"We just don't get density like that in our public buildings in Maine. It's like being in Heathrow Airport in London or Grand Central terminal in New York. It's very unusual, and a different kind of feel," Denenberg said.
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