LEWISTON – Museum L-A will hold a community forum on plans for the museum’s future and a permanent home at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the museum.

“The Birth of a Museum in Lewiston-Auburn” discussion will take place in an area adjacent to the museum’s exhibit space. Hours will be extended that day to allow people to tour the museum before the meeting gets under way. Light refreshments will be served.

“We want the community to be part of the planning process,” Executive Director Rachel Desgrosseilliers said in a prepared statement.

The museum has space in the Bates Mill Complex and is looking to find a new, permanent home. Professional museum architects and planners E. Verner Johnson and Associates Inc. of Boston have been working for several months with the museum’s planning committees to come up with a concept design and programming for its new headquarters.

Key planners will present their concepts at the forum and will facilitate the gathering of input.

Museum L-A, incorporated in 1996, is dedicated to preserving and showcasing the rich history of the Industrial Revolution and its workers in Lewiston-Auburn. It is open weekdays and Saturdays beginning in July. For more information, contact the museum at 207-333-3881 or e-mail Desgrosseilliers at [email protected].