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Ann Doyle posted a reply on Re: Flooring Types in the Museum
Monday, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Said: We also have StonHard Flooring in our Water, Water Everywhere gallery. We had it installed in 2023 and it should last at least 40 years. No more guests slipping! We have carpet (17 yrs old) in most of the galleries an...
Sioux Wimler posted a reply on Re: Cleaning cadence for new museum
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Said: We have about 13000 sf of exhibit space, and our staff cleans constantly throughout the day, then does a big clean at end of day to get the museum to open the next morning. We have an outside company come in Mondays and Thursdays only, ...
Sioux Wimler posted a reply on Re: Admission Discounts on Birthdays
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Said: Hi! We don't do a birthday discount, but we do ask ages of the kids, and this is usually when families let us know they're here to celebrate a birthday. We e offer them their choice of a t-shirt from our store as a birthday gift. <...
Beth Crocker posted a new Topic
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Membership Fee Income Distribution
Seeking insight into your museum's typical annual distribution of paid individual admission vs. membership. We're fine tuning some projections for our emerging museum and we'd appreciate some further insight here. Thank you in advance.
Catherine McCarthy posted a new Topic
Thursday, Apr 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Free NISE Network Online Workshop: Creating Relevant and Meaningful STEM Experiences (April 15)
Upcoming free professional learning one-hour online workshop:
Online Workshop: Creating Relevant and Meaningful STEM Experiences
Join us as we explore the importance of relevance in STEM learning experiences. We will start with an introduction to the principles of relevance, sharing strategies found to be successful during a study of place-based learning in the NISE Network's STEM Learning Ecosystems project. We will talk about the proc...
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