GFSM Visitors Post Record Attendance in January 2012!

GFSM got some great news this week: January paid attendance figures jumped more than 200% over the same month last year.

        We’ve experienced a sizable jump in numbers and everyone is running around here with huge grins these days.  Figures for January 2012 totaled 1,443 paid visitors with approximately 80% coming from areas outside of Greeley/Evans.  Last year’s monthly attendance was 554 with about 15% coming from Greeley proper. The museum attracted more than 15,000 paid visitors in 2011, another record for our attraction.

        Our popular non-profit, privately-funded museum will celebrate its third anniversary this coming Memorial Day weekend and we will continue to feature one of the world’s largest, continuous HO scale miniature railroads.

        Michelle added that she just completed a successful trip to Texas to the American Bus Association and is expecting national bus tours to begin scheduling Greeley as a stopping point in the summer of 2013.  “We’re excited about the bus prospects and we’re putting together a 15-20 minute promotional film for bus companies to show their guests as buses approach Greeley for visits.”  Jim Inglis is heading up the museum’s “production company” which will turn out the film.