The Nelson-Atkins lawn will become a miniature golf course next summer

The shuttlecocks on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are cool and all, but you can’t actually play badminton with them. They’re much too big!

Next summer, though, the leisure-sports vibe on the Nelson’s lawn will become significantly more interactive. The museum has announced that, in late spring of 2018, it will debut a nine-hole miniature golf course on the lawn of the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park.

“The objective of this course is to present a playful, one-of-a-kind interactive experience that highlights the museum’s collection in new and unexpected ways,” the museum notes in a release.

The Nelson is currently seeking creative design proposals for each hole. “Artists, designers, architects, engineers, landscape architects, furniture designers, makers, or individuals in any other related fields based anywhere in the United States” are encouraged to submit ideas.

Themes must relate to works in the museum’s collection or architecture (here’s a link to the collection archive) and “each hole must be designed to handle a large volume of traffic (approximately 30,000 people) without excessive upkeep and constant maintenance,” the museum says.

The course will be up and going for the entire summer of 2018. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2017.

More info here.