319,000 Visit the Exhibit Emperors Were Dying to Get Into

Enough people visited the Imperial Tombs of China exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art to fill Cougar Stadium five times. The show, which ran from Nov. 1 to Mar. 16, was “a major coup for us because, in the words of the Chinese, this is the finest exhibit that has left China,” said James A. Mason, the museum’s director. A total of 319,000 tickets were sold. The majority of those attending were from Utah, but cards filled out by visitors as they exited the museum indicated that people from all across the United States came to the exhibit. Of the 319,000 tickets sold, 98,000 were to school children who came from 920 schools, some as far away as Idaho.