*sigh* 250,000 People Cant be Wrong
We are truly fucked. After five months of being totally awesome the Creationist Museum is expanding.
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PETERSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Northern Kentucky's Creation Museum is evolving into a larger facility.
The museum will add 663 parking spaces, outdoor canopies and a maintenance building and will move its main entrance as part of a $500,000 upgrade, according to a report in The Kentucky Enquirer.
The controversial museum, which uses literal interpretations of the Bible to tell the earth's history, welcomed its 250,000th visitor five months after its opening on Memorial Day. The museum had expected to get 250,000 visitors its entire first year.
The larger-than-expected crowds left the facility with an overflowing parking lot, forcing staff to park miles away.
The Boone County Planning Commission approved the plans by an 11-1 vote, the newspaper reported.
Three years ago we thought this was the biggest joke in the world, but now...now it is dropping half a million dollars to expand. BECAUSE IT IS SO POPULAR. We are just one election cycle from this place hosting a Republican primary debate.
Also - to add insult to injury Kevin DuBrow the lead signer of Quiet Riot has died. Who now will help us Cum feel the Noize. I need to feel the noize and no one could help me like Quiet Riot.
We are all truely fucked. fucked real hard.
11 comments:
I don't know what 250,000 over five months means in terms of museum attendance. We know it was more than what they expected. But what does that mean?
Also, at the risk of being a label Nazi, this isn't a eulogy, and we can probably have a creation museum label because we've had a few posts about it. Also we have a religion label, and I think a museum about creationism could probably utilize that and not upset anyone.
1) the eulogy is in reference to the death of Kevin DuBrow.
2) you are a label nazi. I am of the opinion that few labels better than more.
when we have 83 labels is just to many. At most, i think we need about a dozen labels
I can't find information about museum attendance records and I don't know how useful it would be.
Using the power of division we can say that the numbers shake out to about 50,000 people per month. If we divide that by 30 (number of days in a month) we get 1666.666 people per day attending.
Then if we look at ticket prices:
Adult (13-59 yrs) $19.95
Senior (60 yrs & up) $14.95
Children (5-12 yrs) $9.95
Children (under 5 yrs) Free
They're probably making plenty of money off of this.
I thought that fewer labels was better. Then I looked at sites like boingboing and kotaku. The more descriptive the label the easier it is for a user to find what they want to read. If every video game article is under "video games" with no specificity beyond that then a person has to search through all those articles to find anything. If we have a label for psp, ds, rock band, diablo, etc. then people can find all of the psp articles quickly and all of the rock band articles quickly.
If we have a "conservative" label then everyone is lumped under that. If we have a huckabee label and a rumsfeld label then people can find those articles quickly.
We can remove the labels from the side of the site if they become too distracting, but I don't think enabling people to quickly find what they want is a bad thing.
The museum of science and industry get about 2 million vistors a year.
it is 74 years old is the middle of a large urban center. It is also much bigger (MSI has 350,000 square feet of exhibit space to 60,000 square feet)
Is it not Cum ON Feel the Noize?
For Shame?
We need to find the one person who voted against and buy them a cake.
The Creation Museum is doing very well. They have a target audience, and they were able to market to them very well. They are doing better than any other museum in the cinci area. However, lets look at long term here. The Creation museum can seriously only market to a select group of people. I predict that attendance will go down rather quickly. Its a one time only sorta thing. However, a museum like the Freedom Center, can market to anyone, has an international apeal. It has much lower attendance, however a more consistant attendance. Also, school groups, and those come back year after year.
I do not see the Creation Museum doing as well long term. But i have been wrong before. or have I? J, check my track record.
there seems to be a long term appeal - maybe not for the area. The expansion, as it is described in the AP article, seems to be for people coming in large busses or AVs.
that is where the the really money for this place is going to be in the long run. At some point its role as a museum will take a backseat and it will become a sort of training center for "educations" and a conference center.
anyway you cut it - 250000 is a hell of a lot of people.
Andrew tends to be correct.
250,000 over five months is a lot of people. I agree with Andrew that 250,000 during the first five months may not indicate a longevity to this level of attendance.
I also agree with Mikey that this will have long-term appeal to certain groups of people. As Muslims have Mecca and Swallows have Capistrano it is entirely possible that shithead fundies will have the Creationist Museum with its animatronic Jesus on a Dinosaur exhibit.
I wish my personal lord and savior had an animatronic dinosaur riding version of itself in a "museum" in Kentucky. That would be sweet.
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