MORE than 170,000 people attended the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, making it one of the Gallery’s top 10 visited exhibitions of all time. 
The exhibition closed yesterday after a three-and-a-half month season, giving Australian audiences the opportunity to view the first major retrospective of works by one of the most influential Post-Impressionists, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Almost 80 per cent of the 170,201 visitors travelled to Canberra to attend the exhibition in our Centenary year.
ACT treasurer Andrew Barr says an estimated $37 million was injected into the ACT economy as a result of the exhibition, and the accommodation sector benefited greatly from the exhibition, with 18,869 wholesale ticket packages sold.
After a short break, the gallery will be hosting the exhibition, Turner from the Tate: The Making of a Master, opening on June 1, 2013.
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