Due to COVID-19, which began in January 2020, all ordinary daily life was restricted, putting a sudden brake on providing visitors with various exhibitions and educational programs, and they had to find and adapt new alternatives. Each museum recognized the need to respond to environmental changes, but measures to solve the problem were not properly maintained, and local museums also needed to set the actual response direction along with attempts to respond when and how to do so. Based on the background and necessity of this environmental change, this study examined the exhibition and education programs of Jeollabuk-do Public Art Museum as examples of actual responses to the challenges of local art museums in the COVID-19 era. As a result of the study, we proposed improvements and actual operational directions for alternative attempts at local art galleries during the COVID-19 era, and further discussed new alternatives to building an extended environment as non-face-to-face.