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Adding to Tina's warning: if you have paid parking, post signs near
the pay stations alerting visitors to the closing. Disgruntled is too
weak a word to describe a family that discovers the closure only at
the front door. (And I second Tina's suggestion of compensatory free
tickets for any who do slip through your defenses!)
Tom Nielsen
The Exhibit Guys
On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Tina Crimp wrote:
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> Jeff,
>
> At Techniquest (Cardiff, Wales) we close annually for one week (M-
> F.) During this time, essential maintenance, painting, deep
> cleaning and training goes on. It usually happens during the second
> week of school in September as schools seem to stagger which day
> they start back due to teacher training / inset / CPD days during
> the first week. Schools are not likely to come out on a big trip
> during the second week of term, so it seems to work out nicely.
>
> A word of warning, though. Make sure you publicise this on your
> website and even at the entrance for a few weeks leading up to the
> closure. We usually advertise the closing throughout the month of
> August and still get disappointed visitors at the door during our
> shut-down week. To help ease the distress caused to small children
> and their parents, we usually offer a family ticket for the visitors
> to come back free on a day when we are open.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Tina
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> Tina Crimp, STEM and STEM Ambassadors
> Techniquest, Stuart Street, Cardiff, UK. CF10 5BW
> Tel: +44 (0) 29 20 475 475, Direct: +44 (0) 29 20 475 477
> Fax: +44 (0) 29 20 482 517
> Web: http://www.techniquest.org
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> Techniquest is a Company Limited by Guarantee,
> registered in England and Wales, no. 1955696
> It is a registered charity, no. 517722
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