Would you love a Free Museum Pass? Did you know if you live, work or go to school in NYS you can get a New York Public Library Card? The NYS Public Library has so many resources including access to museums for free.To obtain one go to New York Public Library. The Public Library Card will give you access to free museums through the culture pass.
If you Do Not Qualify or are interested in museums not covered by this pass check out the ASTC Museum Reciprocity Program which is another great Museum Program
Free Museum Pass / The Culture Pass Website Answers some key questions:
What is the Cuture Pass
Culture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons ages 13 and older of Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library and Queens Library. Using their library card, New Yorkers can reserve a pass and get free admission to dozens of NYC cultural institutions, including museums, historical societies, heritage centers, public gardens, and more. It’s easy to get a pass here’s how.
How to get the Culture Pass
Log in with your library card credentials and browse for passes by date or venue. Make your reservation and print or download your pass shortly before your visit. Remember that once you print or download your pass you cannot cancel your reservation.
There’s so many attractions included in the pass. here’s the list.
What Attractions are included in the Free Museum Pass
- American Museum of Natural History
- Asia Society Museum
- Bard Graduate Center Gallery
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- Botanic Garden, Brooklyn
- Children’s Museum, Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Museum
- Children’s Museum of the Arts
- Children’s Museum of Manhattan
- China Institute
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- The Drawing Center
- Fraunces Tavern Museum
- The Frick Collection
- Historic Richmond Town
- International Center of Photography
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
- The Jewish Museum
- Lewis H. Latimer House Museum
- Louis Armstrong House
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- MoMA PS1
- The Morgan Library & Museum
- Museum of Modern Art
- Museum of the City of New York
- Arts and Design, Museum of
- Museum of Chinese in America
- New York Transit Museum
- Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
- New Museum
- New York Botanical Garden
- The Noble Maritime Collection
- Noguchi Museum
- Queens Historical Society
- Queens Museum
- Rubin Museum of Art
- SculptureCenter
- Second Stage Theater
- Skyscraper Museum
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
- Society of Illustrators
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling
- Swiss Institute
- Wave Hill
- Whitney Museum of American Art
Summary
Affordable Family Travel is easy when you utilize free activities such as museum passes. Make sure you check out our local public library to see if they offer museum passes or other travel resources and also check with anyone your visiting to see if their public libraries offer them as well. Often these resources are only for residences but for example, my public library offers several families passes to various museums, I am able to check out 2 passes which is usually enough to cover my family and an additional family.
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