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Elvis exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery attracts over 219,000 visitors

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Elvis exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery attracts over 219,000 visitors

Wednesday July 13th, 2022

More than 200,000 people have travelled to Bendigo to visit the sold-out Elvis: Direct from Graceland exhibition.

Since it opened in March the exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery has attracted 219,000 people, outstripping the Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe exhibitions, which attracted 152,706 and 143,222 people respectively.

The exhibition is considered the gallery's most successful to date and  closed to a sell-out crowd on Sunday 19 July 2022.

More than 65,000 visitors to the exhibition were first-time visitors to the gallery and 24,000 of the Elvis fans travelled to Bendigo from interstate.

Read more via Creative Victoria here


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