If you are simply trying to "get the word out":
1 try asking a local newspaper or news station to run a feature on the museum (or at least something in the "community calendar).
2 talk to your chamber of commerce or visitors center and see if you can put brochures or a poster there, or get onto their map or into their brochure.
3 hold an event (maybe even offsite) that will generate some press and buzz for your museum.
4 send something home with students that visit the courthouse to encourage them to come back another time with a family member.

Just my two cents...
- Cass


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On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Laurie Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I work at the Maricopa County Bar Association in Phoenix. Some of our local judges and attorneys have started the Maricopa County Justice Museum and Learning Center.
> This is, to their knowledge, the only museum in a working courthouse. I have been asked for the best way to promote this museum since I have some museum experience. 
> So I am asking all of you for help because I am at a loss. 
> 
> First the bad news
> There is no Executive Director. It is lead by a board of lawyers and Judges.
> We have one person that volunteers for the lunch hour Monday-Thursday for tours.
> We cannot open on the weekends.
> People have to go through security and cannot bring cameras.
> Even if we could use the building on the evening and weekends we cannot generate income via space rental since the building is “Dry”.
> It is a very small space in the old jail area of the court about ¼ of the floor of jail cells was saved when they refurbished the building. It is a 1929 building.
> 
> The good news:
> We have professionally done exhibits on Arizona’s legal history and three interactive touch screen Question and answer screen s that offer questions on legal history.
> The court system has set up a fairly loosely run field trip called the courthouse experience that brings school kids to the court complex but not specifically to the museum. It is more to see how the courts work and the groups are lead by attorneys without any specific agenda.
> We do advertise to the jurors waiting for jury duty.
> We have a website but no one really does much with it.
> 
> Any ideas and suggestions would be helpful.
> 
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