Total Museum Attendance and Knelman Lord

museum attendance: They’re punching below their weight, according to Toronto Star. Alarmingly, total museum attendance in the city is dropping even as the population increases and museum attendance soars in other major cities. Our large cultural institutions are sleeping giants, Lord says. According to Lord, the way to move forward is for cultural institutions to collaborate with one another, and with civic and community organizations, using their cumulative clout to increase Toronto influence both in Canada and abroad. We have five major arts organizations searching for new leaders, Lord notes. It would help, she notes, if the city had more visionary leaders like the late David Pecaut leading Toronto to cultural glory.MORE AT THESTAR. Who will lead the country art organizations Knelman Lord says museums like the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario need to slash admission fees, become more welcoming and dramatically increase attendance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.