PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer exhibit has been so popular that the museum has added an admission surcharge and is selling timed tickets.
“Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” drew 17,000 people in its first three weeks after opening Sept. 22. The exhibit features 38 of Homer’s works that he produced in his studio in Scarborough, where he lived from 1883 until his death in 1910.
The museum has added a $5 surcharge to tickets while limiting the number of people in the exhibit area to 60 each half-hour, requiring a timed-ticket admission policy.
The Portland Press Herald says tours of the artist’s studio in Scarborough are sold out for the remainder of the year. The studio opened to the public last month following a multiyear restoration project.
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