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Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Several years ago our galleries had to also close for renovations to the HVAC system-- here's information about the Sculpture Invitational and correlated programs, specifically a public art symposium, that happened as a result. It was a great way for the community and tourist economy to still 'experience' the museum. Many of the pieces still stand in the community and eventually a public art plan for the community was the result. Good luck!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

I have seen a museums successfully continue engage with their audiences through a temporary closure. Some of the ideas I picked up on were the obvious ways and means through social media (reno updates, object highlights, 'on this day' etc) to pop up exhibitions and small displays in unexpected locations (shopping malls, airports). One museum here also did highly specialised, exclusive group tour of the work area where it was possible (hard hats etc.).

Hope that helps. 

Liz

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!

I would contact the people at the SD Agricultural Heritage Museum in Brookings, SD. They were closed for a month or two to work on removing asbestos in their walls this past Fall. They also worked on a new exhibit during the closure and had it opened by the time the museum was open to the public again. I think they may have had an off-site program during that time too. Here is their website to contact them at: www.agmuseum.com/ I just personally would recommend beefing up your marketing, both on social media and elsewhere. Advertise that you are closed for "something big" to encourage people to come see it once you open

Hello! I am the new Public & Community Relations Coordinator with the Flint Institute of Arts. We are in the midst of an expansion project and will be closing for 3 months during summer 2017. Does anyone have any ideas or examples they can share on how to still engage the community and maintain visibility while being closed? Thank you!