# Museum Advisory Board Meeting, September 21, 2026


**Body:** City of Longmont Colorado
**Date:** September 20, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Professional Services, Grants & Funding


The Longmont Museum Advisory Board met on September 21, 2026, to review museum operations and the 2027 budget. The city budget includes funding for a part-time exhibits position and partial funding for gallery teachers for the new Dream Lab exhibit; the museum will need to address coverage because the allocation funds 44 of its 56 weekly open hours. Other requested support, including low-sensory Sunday mornings, was not funded. A council member discussed an approximately $18,000 shortfall in the museum’s requests, estimated at about 0.5% of its budget. The museum also reported raising about $160,000 at its Sunset Soirée for the permanent history exhibit and receiving a Colorado Creative Industries grant for artistic programming. Contracts are in place with Indigenous-history and Latino-history advisory consultants; no contract amounts were stated, and no procurement-related vote was reported.

The board also received updates on the October 17 reopening, exhibit development, and the Longmont flag project, whose finalists are expected to proceed to a community preference poll and then City Council selection. A council member reported that consolidation proposals involving the museum advisory board were not moving forward, following a 4–3 discussion or vote as described in the transcript. The board unanimously approved meeting materials; no other spending or purchasing motions were identified.

**Source:** City of Longmont Colorado