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If you are a card carrying member of the New York Public Library Queens Library, or Brooklyn Library who is 13 years or older, you can now visit 33 NYC museums--FREE, one time, with New York's new Culture Pass program.
Museums, Attractions, Parks (MAP) Passes are available to Poughkeepsie Public Library District library card holders. who are 18 years of age or older, have a valid email address, and have no outstanding fines, fees, or overdue materials.Passes to FDR Presidential Library & Museum are available for all Mid-Hudson Libraries Card Holders. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the newest addition to our Museum Pass Program. An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The New York Public Library has made it easier for New Yorkers to take advantage of its many cultural insititutions with the rollout of its Culture Pass program. The service allows library cardholders to visit participating institutions one time, FREE. Some of the participating museums include the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Cooper Hewitt, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in addition to many others. More participants will be added on an ongoing basis.
Cooper Hewitt
NYC library cardholders can borrow passes for two or four people. How it works:
1. Log onto the Culture Pass web site. Under 'Reserve a Pass,' select your library system (The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, or Queens Library).
2. Log in to the Culture Pass reservation system using your library card barcode/username and pin.
3. Browse available passes by date, venue or location. Each pass will offer free entry for either two or four people; please read the details carefully.
4. Make a reservation.
5. Retrieve your pass shortly before your visit. (Once you print or download your pass, you cannot cancel your reservation.) You must show ID when redeeming Culture Pass.
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For more information, visit culturepass.nyc.
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(6/19-6/26) Looking for what to do in New York? We've got the latest on all the goings-on in NYC this week, from concerts to museum exhibitions to comedy to the best in city sightseeing. Read on for our picks for the best of this week in New York City. click hereDo you have a New York City library card? If so, you can now go to the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim and 31 other prominent New York cultural institutions for free.
These institutions, which also include the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and MoMA PS1, have partnered with the New York City libraries to launch Culture Pass, an initiative designed to encourage underserved communities to take advantage of the city’s cultural bounty. Library cardholders of the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library will be able to reserve passes to these venues for free, albeit once a year.
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“Some people are intimidated by museums,” Linda Johnson, president of the Brooklyn Public Library, said in a phone interview. “They shouldn’t be shut out of all the wonderful cultural offerings that are available to New York City dwellers.”
The participating venues cover all five boroughs and also include the Noguchi Museum, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, the Rubin Museum and Wave Hill. Library cardholders can log onto culturepass.nyc and use their library card number and pin to make reservations; some of the institutions, like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, allow entry for up to four people.
The initiative gives the opportunity for institutions to get people in the door who might previously not have had the awareness or means. “We are committed to giving back to the community and to making art more accessible to all New Yorkers,” said Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum, in a statement. A publicity campaign will distribute explanatory materials in Spanish, Mandarin, Russian and Arabic across the city.
While the city’s municipal identification cards also offered memberships to cultural hubs like Carnegie Hall, those memberships only lasted for a year. Ms. Johnson said she hopes Culture Pass will continue indefinitely and expand the number of partners. “We’re going everywhere that anybody sends us to sign more institutions up,” she said.
Library cardholders can also watch some 30,000 movies for free through the streaming platform Kanopy.
The initiative is funded by several philanthropic foundations as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.