Sue should pack them in

“A T. Rex Named Sue” should draw crowds to Exploration Place. The traveling exhibit opens Saturday and features a cast of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skelton ever discovered, as well as interactive displays. It is the first of several successful exhibits planned at Exploration Place in coming years. It also reflects a growing confidence by museum officials that Exploration Place deserves big name exhibits and that if you host them, people will come.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

5 Comments

  1. writerdog
    Posted August 29, 2006 at 2:37 am | Permalink

    Along with the high price of admission, that has been pointed out. I love Exploration Place, my kids loved it too. But when every time you go it is basically the same thing. It get old and not worth the admission.

  2. Joe Williams
    Posted August 29, 2006 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    What we should so is close Cowtown and sell it to the Wild West World. I’m sure they will buy all the buildings and relocate it there.

    The money saved and earn on that sale, dump it in Emploration Place and allow it to be a more of a changing exhibit museum to be fresh every year.

  3. Wayreth
    Posted August 29, 2006 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    That’s the problem with museums. If you live in a city with one they become stale rather quickly. When they don’t rotate exhibits quickly enough then the locals will shy away. I feel that “Sue” may be too little too late.

  4. heartlander
    Posted August 29, 2006 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

    I’m not sure you can call something “successful” before it happens. “Ambitious” would be a more accurate descriptive. It certainly makes sense to inject some continuous new exhibit variety into EP, something EP’s original leadership apparently didn’t appreciate, even though it was standard practice for big city museums, and, for that matter the down-the-road Cosmosphere as well.

  5. J R
    Posted August 30, 2006 at 10:29 pm | Permalink

    Time to get a yearly pass for EP again.

    That place is a treasure. I have been there with my son 17 times and STILL have not seen everything.

    This differs from Cowboy Wild West World where I will NEVER go. Too expensive and I don’t like that my money would be going to supporters of Terry Fox.