Check at your local mall. See if any large stores are vacant. If so 
perhaps they will cut you a deal at a very good price for 6 months. We 
often did that, when I worked for the Virginia Living Museum, for Summer 
blockbuster exhibits at a mall with a vacant major department store. So 
we were there for 3 months. Museum staff put up temporary walls in the 
shape/locations that we needed.

One way to perhaps get the mall to cut you a good deal is the increased 
traffic the mall would get as a result of the museum being there for a 
period of time.

Patrick McQuillan
Education and Outreach Specialist
IRIS

Education wrote:
>
> We are interested in hearing from small museums that had off-site 
> exhibit spaces when they were closed for renovation/expansion. We are 
> a 45,000sf art museum with approx. 14,000 works of art that will close 
> for 4-6 months.
>
> **Jessica Gauthier**
>
> /*/Education Assistant/*/
>
> /*/Allentown/*//*/ Art Museum/*/
>
> /*/610-432-4333 ext. 32/*/
>
> The Allentown Art Museum will present /The Green House: New Directions 
> in Sustainable Architecture and Design/ from February 7 – May 30, 
> 2010. Featuring models, drawings and photographs, /The Green House/ 
> exhibition spotlights an international survey of 21 contemporary 
> residences that serve as outstanding examples of sustainable and 
> aesthetically compelling design. For more information, visit 
> www.allentownartmuseum.org <http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/>.
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