Library card holders get free access to over 30 museums

<p>New York City public library card holders Monday will be able to access free passes to over 30 museums.</p>

News 12 Staff

Jul 16, 2018, 2:48 PM

Updated 2,119 days ago

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Library card holders get free access to over 30 museums
New York City library card holders Monday will be able to access free passes to over 30 museums.
The library's 'Culture Pass' program will grant free access to museums like the Met, MoMA, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Queens Museum of Art, and more.
The program was made possible through private funding and includes all three New York city library branches, organizers say.
The Culture Pass program will provide 58,000 passes per year at a value of over $2 million a year.
The program will run for the next three years.
Cultural institutions participating in Culture Pass, as of July 16, 2018, include:
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Brooklyn Children's Museum
• Brooklyn Historical Society
• Brooklyn Museum
• Children's Museum of Manhattan
• Children's Museum of the Arts
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
• The Drawing Center
• The Frick Collection
• Historic Richmond Town
• International Center of Photography
• Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
• The Jewish Museum
• Louis Armstrong House
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Morgan Library & Museum
• Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1
• Museum of Chinese in America
• Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
• Museum of the City of New York
• New York Transit Museum
• Noguchi Museum
• Queens Historical Society
• Queens Museum
• Rubin Museum of Art
• SculptureCenter
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
• Society of Illustrators
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Sugar Hill Children's Museum
• Wave Hill
• Whitney Museum of American Art


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