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Last Updated: Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 14:39 GMT
Two million visitors for Baltic
Baltic centre for contemporary art, Gateshead
The former mill was transformed into a £46m art complex
The Baltic art gallery on Tyneside is celebrating after welcoming its two millionth visitor.

One of the largest contemporary art galleries in the world, it first opened on the Gateshead Quayside in July 2002 in an old flour mill.

The gallery said the visitor numbers have far exceeded expectations, with almost 500,000 people visiting Baltic each year.

This is more than double the population of Tyne and Wear.




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