Public Libraries Launch 'Culture Pass,' Offering Free Admission Over To 30 NYC Museums

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), The New York Public Library (NYPL), and Queens Library today launched Culture Pass, a joint library-led, city-wide initiative providing free access to more than 30 museums and cultural institutions across all five boroughs available to every NYC library card holder.

Starting today, participating institutions ranging from the Whitney Museum in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to the Noguchi Museum in Queens, Wave Hill in the Bronx, and Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island will provide day-passes for library cardholders to reserve online-from computers at library branches, personal devices, or anywhere they access the internet-to gain free admission.

Through Culture Pass, public libraries will act as a bridge to the other world-class cultural organizations in New York, breaking down barriers of entry to the millions of current and future library card holders across the city.

The inaugural group of 33 institutions participating in Culture Pass follows below:

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