Blockbuster "Body Worlds" leaves town
The "Body Worlds" exhibit closes this weekend, and the Science Museum of Minnesota will have its doors open around the clock for the final days of the exhibition.
The display is expected to draw more than seven-hundred thousand visitors to downtown St. Paul before the show moves on, making it the most popular temporary exhibit the museum has ever hosted.
What's the impact of blockbuster exhibitions and what can a cultural institution do keep the audiences that swarmed to see them? Cathy Wurzer turned to Morning Edition's arts commentator Dominic Papatola for the answers.
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