Alaskan Museum Counting On “Bilbao Effect”

Fairbanks, Alaska’s Museum of the North is expanding, hoping to generate some Bilbao-type publicity in the hopes of becoming a tourist destination. “Other museums that have created what we call signature buildings have experienced the same ‘Bilbao effect,’ where the building becomes a destination. I said, ‘We really need to do this because we need to get tourists here in the summer to help us pay our bills.”‘