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Coke's Exhibit Leads Trend of Bigger, Flashier, Costlier

Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2007 — From the theater to a 29½-foot-high contour bottle encased in a glass tower to more than 1,000 pieces of memorabilia, elaborately orchestrated schmaltz pervades the New World of Coca-Cola, a $96 million museum opening to the public Thursday. Coca-Cola Co. estimates that about a million people a year will visit the company's shrine to itself, which is roughly the size of 1½ football fields and located about a mile from Coke's headquarters.