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Lily Hoyer-Winfield posted a reply on Re: Winter Attendance
Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Said: Have you all done a member survey or had some focus groups and asked your regular audience? It might be a great way to see the need that they have and fill it if you can. What about being a hub for 4-h or scout badge ni...
Libby McKay posted a reply on Re: Winter Attendance
Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Said: I do not know how this works where you are but our museum is in rural Nebraska and one of the things I have started doing is sending home double-sided 1/4 page flyers with the pre-K-4th graders at the elementary schools. Sort of a...
Megan Dietz posted a reply on Re: Winter Attendance
Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Said: Is your museum patronized by more locals or more tourists? Our museum also has a sharp decrease in attendance in winter, but our community is a tourist area and winter tourism around here is a tiny fraction of summer. One th...
Rachael Gary posted a reply on Re: Winter Attendance
Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Said: Hello!Do ya'll host field trips for the local schools in the area? I'm from Louisiana, so there's no cold/snow issue down here, but we're much slower during the school year vs the summer. We host field trips during the week which is...
Janelle Benson posted a new Topic
Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Winter Attendance
Our museum struggles in the winter months, to the point where we have to cut open hours, staff, and programming. We are in a rural area in Northern Minnesota in a town of about 11,000. Our museum is one of the only indoor play spaces (besides McDonald's) in the area, and we have about 300 members, but there are days we barely see visitors in the double digits. We are baffled as to why our space isn't utilized more. The whole town just kind of hunkers d...
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