The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is making plans for an in-person ceremony in Cleveland in late October or early November for its 2021 inductees.

Rock Hall President and CEO Greg Harris shared the museum’s plans during an online news conference Friday afternoon.

Cleveland was supposed to host the 2020 induction ceremony, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and replaced it with a televised special that premiered on HBO Max in November.

Ballots will be distributed in early February, Harris said, and the nominees will be announced later this month. Specifics on the induction ceremony should be available at that time.

Fans will be able to cast their votes from February through April, and the Class of 2021 will be announced in May.

Artists who will be eligible for the first time in 2021 include Foo Fighters (led by Warren native Dave Grohl), Jay-Z, Jewel, Ben Folds, Chemical Brothers and Garbage.

The exhibition devoted to the Class of 2021 will open in early July. Other special exhibitions planned this year include a Legends of Rock display opening in February that will span four floors of the museum on the downtown Cleveland lakefront and an exhibit focusing on past Super Bowl halftime shows that will coincide with Cleveland hosting the NFL Draft in April.

The Rock Hall was closed for three months last spring when the pandemic started, and it closed for about two months from mid-November until last weekend due to the recent surge in coronavirus cases.

Despite those disruptions, “2020 wasn’t a year to just hibernate and wait it out,” Harris said. “We found areas of opportunity where we could accelerate, reach people differently, reach people remotely.”

The reach of its online education resources expanded greatly. On an average day in 2019, 45 teachers would use the Rock Hall’s educational tools. That number soared to more than 500 daily last spring, and more than 700,000 students were reached last year.

Those resources are available for free to “teachers and parents who have become teachers,” Harris said, at www.rockhall.com/education.

Special programming is planned for Black History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March. While the museum is open to visitors, that special programming will be strictly online.

“I can’t see jamming us together as an audience just yet,” Harris said.

The Rock Hall does plan to resume outdoor concerts on its plaza this summer.

Last month the Rock Hall announced a major expansion that will be overseen by Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, an architectural firm based in New York and Berkeley, Calif. Harris said about $70 million has been raised of the $100 million cost for the project, and the groundbreaking is expected in 2022.