If you look at the general admissions to [the museum in] Oakland, despite the fact that we didn't have dinosaurs for nine months out of the year, we nearly matched the number of visitors who were here in 2004. |
It covered roughly half the costs of mounting the exhibit. |
Those are in a class by themselves. |
What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it. |