Greater Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI) made a £326,769 operating profit from last year's Doctor Who Up Close exhibition, according to newly filed accounts.
It helped the museum to boost its commercial revenue by 300 per cent to nearly £2m as the number of visitors rose to 819,000 compared with 600,000 in the year before.
MSIM Enterprises Ltd, MoSI's trading arm, saw increased income in the year to March 31, 2008, from ticket sales, the coffee shop, flight simulator and a temporary Doctor Who shop selling merchandise. The final weeks of the financial year also benefited from ticket sales for Gunther Von Hagen's Body Worlds 4 exhibition.
Commercial income jumped by £1.4m largely as a result of Doctor Who Up Close, but MoSI said those gains were offset by cost increases of £895,509, also connected with the exhibition.