The Boulder County Badger

Longmont Museum reopening drew 1,976 visitors; attendance exceeded projections

The museum director reported that daily attendance in the weeks after the Oct. 17 opening was more than double projections; October ticket and rental revenue totaled $15,612.

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A historic $5 banknote bearing the words “American National Bank of Longmont” and “Longmont, Colorado,” from the museum’s local-history collection.
A historic $5 banknote bearing the words “American National Bank of Longmont” and “Longmont, Colorado,” from the museum’s local-history collection.

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The Longmont Museum’s Oct. 17 reopening drew 1,976 visitors, and daily attendance in the weeks afterward was more than double projections, Museum Director Erik Mason reported. The report rounds the opening-day crowd to about 2,000.

The reopening opened an expanded children’s gallery, a larger feature gallery and a permanent history gallery. The museum’s exhibitions calendar lists DreamLab in Lila’s Children’s Gallery, along with Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Portrait and Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity, as opening Oct. 17. The city’s expansion announcement described the project’s permanent history gallery and larger, more accessible entrance.

DreamLab is an interactive space for children. Mason reported that it continued to draw young families after the opening, with gallery teachers managing the space and building relationships with repeat visitors. Staff were also continuing DreamLab wrap-up and maintenance work.

The museum’s report lists $8,912 in October ticket revenue and $6,700 in rental revenue, totaling $15,612. Those are monthly figures, not year-to-date totals.