UPDate: the REAL King Tut was not at the DMA... so the exhibit did not even break even.

Dallas Museum of Art wants to keep Tut exhibit's financial details a secret
By BROOKS EGERTON / The Dallas Morning News begerton@dallasnews.com
Taxpayers spend untold millions to subsidize the Dallas Museum of Art. But the museum says they have no right to know what kind of deal it cut with the for-profit organizers of the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit. The secrecy is such that the museum won't discuss basic contract terms and can't even say how many people saw the exhibit for free, the lawyer said. The DMA said it does not compile statistics on ticket sales or average price per ticket; that's under the organizers' control. Powell also asserted that the state law on nonprofit groups applies only to those with "a specific problem – lack of accountability." The museum, he added, was not such an organization.