Walker Center Attendance Declines 30 Percent

Attendance at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center was down 30 percent lasty year. Officials attribute the decline “primarily to a tourism fall-off after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a natural decline after a 2001 blockbuster season that included popular shows of home design and art by Yoko Ono. Attendance at the Walker fell from an all-time high of 636,000 in 2001 to 439,000 in the 2003 fiscal year, which ended last June 30.”