Another major exhibition at Wellington’s $180 million convention centre has failed to break even, with the council refusing to say exactly how many people visited it.
Last July RNZ reported the first two major exhibitions at Tākina, Jurassic World by Brickman and Marvel: Earth’s Mightiest Exhibition failed to either break even or reach their target visitor numbers.
The Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder ran from 1 June to 28 October and featured props from the BBC sci-fi show which first aired in 1963.
I’m not sure if I was just living under a rock, but I had no idea any of these things were happening last year.
There was a lot of advertising around the CBD, from memory, and a bit of social media.
Although they probably could have done more.
Hmm I don’t remember seeing anything in the CBD, though I wasn’t up that end of town. And I guess it’s my fault for not using mainstream social media.
Plus ad blockers, don’t watch ads on TV, got a no junkmail sign on my letterbox. I’m not sure how they were supposed to tell me about it but I kinda expect other people to talk about it and I’ll learn from word of mouth I guess.
clearly, they have a publicity problem, if we only hear about them when it’s too late.