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Megan Dietz posted a reply on Re: Museum - Public Library Partnerships
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Said: We have a popular partnership with our local library. Our county library system has 8 branches, so they purchase 16 family memberships to the museum at a greatly reduced rate and make the free passes that come with membership avai...
Claire Heronemus posted a reply on Re: Museum - Public Library Partnerships
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Said: The Children's Museum of Fond du Lac has just launched a similar program a couple months ago. How it's been working for us is after we receive payment for the membership itself, I'm either mailing or having them pickup a membership card...
Marian King posted a reply on Re: Museum - Public Library Partnerships
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Said: Samantha - We did this a number of years ago (pre-Covid) and found that it was not beneficial. The library paid a flat rate for the program but there were so many takers that we averaged about .30 per library pass attendee.&nb...
Samantha Plocica posted a new Topic
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 2:43 PM
Museum - Public Library Partnerships
We are looking to start a partnership with our public library where library card holders can “check out” a family pass to use at the museum.
Is anyone interested in sharing exactly how you are doing this? Are they actually checking something physical out and presenting it to the museum? Does the library give the patron a pass? Does it expire?
We have some rudimentary ideas but we’re curious what everyone else is doing!
Thanks in advance,
Samantha
Is anyone interested in sharing exactly how you are doing this? Are they actually checking something physical out and presenting it to the museum? Does the library give the patron a pass? Does it expire?
We have some rudimentary ideas but we’re curious what everyone else is doing!
Thanks in advance,
Samantha
Julie Boam posted a reply on Re: Indoor Dig Pit Materials
Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Said: When we had an indoor dig pit we used a material called jelly bean Mulch. https://jellybeanrubbermulch.com/It was awesome. And when we eliminated the dig pit due to covid, we put it outside in our outdoor classroom. ...
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