A major traveling exhibition of ancient treasures has been cancelled on mid-tour after Sicilian cultural authorities decided the extended loans were hurting the island's tourist economy.

Now on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the exhibition “Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome,” was slated to travel to the Cleveland Museum of Art in September.

Cleveland museum officials will have to fill a huge hole in their fall exhibition calendar, but the Getty has offered to cover the costs associated with Cleveland's loss.

The Getty and Cleveland museum co-organized the exhibition which includes a famed 6-foot-tall statue of a charioteer, one of Sicily's star tourist attractions. Sicilian officials cited the long absence of the charioteer as a major loss in tourist dollars.