{"id":393321,"date":"2026-04-11T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:49:15","slug":"plymouth-museum-and-art-gallery-the-box-in-record-breaking-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393321\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth museum and art gallery The Box in &#8216;record-breaking year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Box said the Beryl Cook exhibition had welcomed 52,000 visitors with nine weeks of its 18-week run remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said 45% of those travelled from across the country, which it said demonstrated its &#8220;remarkable reach and its impact on Plymouth&#8217;s visitor economy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pomery said it was &#8220;wonderful&#8221; to see people &#8220;turning up in their thousands&#8221; to celebrate the Plymouth-associated artist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Many of them are visiting The Box for the very first time, and we hope this is the beginning of a long relationship,&#8221; she added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amanda Lumley, CEO of Destination Plymouth, said the Cook exhibition had given &#8220;a real boost to the hospitality, retail, and tourism economy&#8221; and was &#8220;making Plymouth a place people want to visit and return to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The free admission venue added that the Journeys with Mai exhibition, telling the story of Mai, the first Pacific islander to visit Britain, featured Plympton artist Sir Joshua Reynolds&#8217; portrait of Mai and had welcomed about 25,000 visitors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Box said the Beryl Cook exhibition had welcomed 52,000 visitors with nine weeks of its 18-week run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-393321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}