{"id":17577,"date":"2026-11-05T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17577"},"modified":"2026-10-31T22:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:04:20","slug":"hope-for-the-younger-generation-greater-sales-for-art-tickets-than-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17577","title":{"rendered":"Hope for the younger generation &#8211; greater sales for art tickets than Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayeux_Tapestry\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayeux_Tapestry\">Bayeux tapestry<\/a>, a 1,000-year-old embroidery, went on display at the British Museum while the Bayeux Museum in France was closed for repairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/26\/young-britons-bayeux-tapestry-tickets-british-museum-hollywood-blockbusters\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/26\/young-britons-bayeux-tapestry-tickets-british-museum-hollywood-blockbusters\">British Museum reached \u00a314,100 in sales<\/a> the first hour the tickets went on sale online &#8211; selling 48 times that of a normal Wednesday morning.  More than half (55%) of those buyers were aged under 35. They completely sold out in less than 3 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even more amazing? This was double the opening mornings for this year\u2019s blockbuster films: The Odyssey only reached \u00a37,000, and the box office smash hit Spider-Man: Brand New Day, only hit \u00a36,300, according to the bank\u2019s spending data for its 16 million customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bayeux tapestry, a 1,000-year-old embroidery, went on display at the British Museum while the Bayeux Museum in France was closed for repairs. The British Museum reached \u00a314,100 in sales the first hour the tickets went on sale online &#8211; selling 48 times that of a normal Wednesday morning. More than half (55%) of those buyers were aged under 35. They completely sold out in less than 3 hours. Even more amazing? This was double the opening mornings for this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17577\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4zv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17581,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions\/17581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}