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Cincinnati Art Museum's just-closed 'Terracotta Army' exhibit breaks records

You have to go all the way back to 1982 to find a special exhibition that drew more visitors.

Aug 14, 2018 at 4:27 pm

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PHOTO: Hailey Bollinger

Installation view of Cincinnati Art Museum's "Terracotta Army"

It's official.

The Cincinnati Art Museum's just-concluded Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China exhibit was a record breaker. The museum released numbers today that show about 140,000 visitors came to the museum from April 20-August 12, when the exhibit from China was on display. Of those visitors, 91,626 came to the specially ticketed exhibition.

That makes it the highest ticketed special exhibition since 1982/83's Treasures From The Tower Of London, which drew 143,713 people, according to an earlier CityBeat story that the museum could not immediately confirm because attendance-counting procedures were different then.