Want a free ticket to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Art and Design, the Contemporary Jewish Museum or the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts?
You might have that ticket already, if you use a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch credit or debit card, or any card with the BofA logo. The Museums On Us program means gratis admission to 150 museums in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Bring along that bank card and a photo ID and you’ll get in without paying on the first full weekend each month. Usually that’s Saturday-only, but not always. This year the first full weekend happens to coincide with Mother’s Day. If mom has a card, she’s in; if you have a card but she doesn’t, you’ll wind up paying for one instead of two.
The word “museums” may connote the fine arts. But old still-lifes aren’t the only things that you can see for free.
Maybe your mom would like to go to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Motown Museum, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Adler Planetarium, Autry National Center of the American West or the DuSable Museum of African American History. (Use the above link to find a participating institution near you.)
Fine arts are well-represented as well, including but certainly not limited to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (including the Met Breuer, The Met Cloisters and The Met Fifth Avenue), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Seattle Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Depending on the venue, your free ticket may also include special exhibits. Call ahead or check the museum’s website to see if that’s the case. If you can, throw some coins or a couple of bills into the donation bins, to help that institution continue to thrive.
Hope that you and your mom (or your daughter or daughter-in-law) enjoy a little frugal culture, whether having to do with oils or some really danceable music.
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Happy Mother’s Day to you Donna.
And to you as well, and to all readers who are moms or mom-figures.
Hope you had a nice mother’s day. Here in Omaha the Joslyn museum is free, it’s a really nice museum not as big as the ones in Phoenix or MOMA but big enough for Omaha and they have nice exhibitions. ^_^