An art exhibition devoted to Egypt's boy king Tutankhamun opens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia next week, and everybody expects lines out the doors, similar to its first three stops in the U.S.

The official name is "King Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," but it has come to be known as Tut Two.

And it is nothing like Tut One, the famous 1976-79 seven-city tour of King Tut's tomb objects which sparked a Pop cultural fascination with the boy king...

Philly's got the magic Tut, as pharaoh returns to U.S., Dan Bischoff, The Philadelphia Star-Ledger, Pennsylvania, USA, January 24, 2007.

Chicago's 10 largest museums recorded a 6 percent overall attendance increase over 2005, to 8.07 million visitors, in 2006.

The big gainer was the Field Museum, up 60 percent to 2.13 million, thanks to its King Tut exhibit.

Field nudged out the Shedd Aquarium, with 2.07 million, as the top museum draw in Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry saw losses of 15 percent and 24 percent, respectively. The Art Institute decrease reflected the lack of blockbuster shows after a boost in 2005 from a Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition, a spokeswoman said.

The MSI drop was the result of an increase in 2005 attendance from the Body Worlds show, a spokeswoman said.

Tut leads Field to top museum attendance gain, Andrew Herrmann, Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois, USA, January 21, 2007.