The University of Kentucky Basketball Museum has shut its due to falling audience and financial hitches.
July 3rd, 2008 Posted in NCAA basketball news, NCAA college basketballThe University of Kentucky Basketball Museum has shut its doors due to diminishing attendance and financial problems.
The museum, placed in the Lexington Center near the opening to Rupp Arena, has struggled to find an listeners since primary in 1999.
Kentucky representative lithe principal Rob Mullens said Wednesday that the museum, which was not affiliated with the university, was averaging less than 25,000 visitors a year. Consultants told museum officials before it opened that 110,000 fans a year could push through the .
Mullens said the university has categorical to restructure its annual $100,000 gift to the museum to help compensation $1.2,000,000 in debt. Mullens said the university would try to open a new fan-welcoming experience at the Craft Center, the brotherhood’s new drill service.