New York Public Library Card Now Gives You Free Access to 33 NYC Museums

If you’re one of the 8.5 mil­lion peo­ple liv­ing in New York City, take note of this: When you sign up for a library card from the New York Pub­lic Library, you can get access to 30,000 free movies (includ­ing many from the Cri­te­ri­on Col­lec­tion) and also some 300,000 Free eBooks. But that’s not all. A new ini­tia­tive lets mem­bers of the New York Pub­lic Library (plus the Brook­lyn and Queens libraries) to sign up for a Cul­ture Pass and there­by gain free entrance to 33 muse­ums across NYC. The list of par­tic­i­pat­ing muse­ums includes some big ones–the Met, Mor­gan, Whit­ney, Frick and Guggen­heim. Also the MoMA, Brook­lyn Muse­um, and Brook­lyn Botan­ic Gar­den, and more. Find a com­plete list below.

The Cul­ture Pass web­site has more infor­ma­tion about this new pro­gram. The web­site is also where you will need to actu­al­ly make reser­va­tions to vis­it the muse­ums. Accord­ing to Hyper­al­ler­gic, “Each card­hold­er is eli­gi­ble for one pass per cul­tur­al insti­tu­tion annu­al­ly and allowed to reserve two impend­ing vis­its at any giv­en time.”

New York­ers, you can sign up for library cards via these links: New York Pub­lic Library, Brook­lyn Library, and Queens Library.

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Par­tic­i­pat­ing Muse­ums

• 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

via Hyper­al­ler­gic

Relat­ed Con­tent:

New York­ers Can Now Stream 30,000 Free Movies, Includ­ing the Entire Cri­te­ri­on Col­lec­tion, with Their Library Cards

The New York Pub­lic Library Lets Patrons Down­load 300,000 eBooks