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Hannah Lally posted a new Topic
Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Mobile/Pop-Up Planetarium
Hi everyone!
I'm interested to know if anybody has experience renting a mobile planetarium, or purchasing your own pop-up planetarium set, and what that experience was like for you and your visitors. Everything I have seen has been very (VERY) expensive, so I figured I'd ask here if anybody has any good suggestions about rentals or DIY-ing of some sort. Thanks!
I'm interested to know if anybody has experience renting a mobile planetarium, or purchasing your own pop-up planetarium set, and what that experience was like for you and your visitors. Everything I have seen has been very (VERY) expensive, so I figured I'd ask here if anybody has any good suggestions about rentals or DIY-ing of some sort. Thanks!
Valerie Coffman posted a reply on Re: Sock Skating Rink
Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Said: Excited for this conversation as we are also planning on including a sock rink in our museum as well! For those that have done this, do you rent the poly ice or did you buy it? If you purchased it, how do you store it?@Kimberly ...
Marcie Hircock posted a reply on Re: Sock Skating Rink
Thursday, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Said: We have a small museum and put out our sock skating rink in the winter/during our Christmas Village. We ordered dry land hockey tiles from Sniper's Edge. Each tile is 1 sq ft. Each order comes with 20 tiles. We have about an 80 sq ft ar...
Kimberly Stull posted a reply on Re: Sock Skating Rink
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Said: We just did a bunch of research about this. We have a document with feedback from 8 museums around the country that I would be happy to share. We found three different products and several different approaches. I will ...
Lisa Bates posted a reply on Re: Sock Skating Rink
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Said: We just ordered some sample synthetic ice pieces to see if we like it. Would love to learn more from done it. We are going to have ours outside.
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