If you are a member of the Brooklyn, NY, or Queens public library, you already have access to Culture Pass. I finally checked it out today and it’s great. You can request free tickets to dozens of NYC cultural institutions, including museums, historical societies, heritage centers, public gardens and more.
Most places only let you reserve one pass per year and you can only reserve two at a time. I went ahead and made reservations for June for places I knew I would want to go to at that point, but most of them were available as early as tomorrow. What I found great was the list of participating organizations made me think of interesting new places to go, and I don’t mind paying for a ticket. It was an excellent way to learn about places I forgot or never knew existed.
Here is the full list. Not all of them have available passes because some limit the amount they issue to Culture Pass.
American Museum of Natural History
Asia Society Museum
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
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 the City of New York
Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Chinese in America
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Modern Art
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