Long Lines And Crushing Crowds – Welcome To The Art Museum!

A heavily promoted ‘blockbuster’ exhibit of the work of Degas at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is drawing huge numbers of visitors, and that may be a problem. “On those most popular days for museum attendance, Degas devotees holding timed tickets have reported waits of up to an hour to see the critically lauded show, devoted to the great impressionist painter’s lyric images of ballet dancers. And once inside, it was tough for the packed-in art lovers to see the art.” Part of the crowd-control problem can be attributed to a series of crippling snowstorms in the area which prevented many ticketholders from making it to the museum during the exhibit’s first two weekends.