DTD Update: Remembering the Princess Diana Museum

With Pleasure Island clubs shuttered at the end of September, 2008, the last thing Downtown Disney needed was more vacant space.  But that's exactly what happened with the announcement in March, 2009 that Virgin Megastore was closing two months later!  This created another large gap of real estate that could potentially prove difficult to fill.

But fill it they did.  In what the Blog felt at the time was a desperate move to eliminate the gap, the Princess Diana Museum temporarily moved in. There was an admission charge and it featured many of her gowns. We don't recall if it did very well financially.

Admission was amazingly cheap by our standards now. It would later be replaced by Ridemakerz, a toy store of sorts and then permanently by the Splitsville bowling alley complex.