For organizers, the biggest question is how to resolve the 70,000 tickets that already sold. “The museum is managing what to do with the existing ticket sales, De Simoni says. “It all depends on the decrees and laws to resolve it.”
One thing he does know is that the exhibition, long-expected to be a blockbuster of unprecedented proportions, is hemorrhaging money. “At the moment, it’s a loss,” he says. “The museum can host at least 3,000 people a day. It’s a big exhibit, and now we’re closed.”
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