Explore local museums & attractions with Culture Pass! If you have a library card from the Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, or New York Public Library (serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island), you can reserve free passes to 100+ cultural institutions across NYC.
Looking for something fun to do in your city? Dozens of organizations participate in Culture Pass, from children’s museums and public gardens to historical societies and heritage centers. View the full list of participating organizations to see what interests you — whether it’s fine art or history, nature or photography — and reserve your Culture Pass today.
Bronx Children's Museum
Bronx
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Manhattan
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Manhattan
Film Forum
Manhattan
Intrepid Museum
Manhattan
JACK
Brooklyn
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Staten Island
Kupferberg Center for the Arts
Queens
Museum at Eldridge Street
Manhattan
Museum of Bronx History
Bronx
Museum of Modern Art
Manhattan
Museum of the City of New York
Manhattan
Museum of the Moving Image
Queens
New Victory Theater
Manhattan
New-York Historical Society
Manhattan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Manhattan
STREB Lab for Action Mechanics
Brooklyn
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ManhattanCulture Pass is a program for cardholding patrons 13 and older of Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library and Queens Public Library. Using their library card, New Yorkers can reserve a pass and get free admission to dozens of NYC cultural institutions, including museums, historical societies, heritage centers, public gardens and more.
There are dozens of participating organizations, from children’s museums and public gardens to historical societies and heritage centers.
Click on “Reserve a Pass” and select your library system, then log in with your library card information and browse available passes by date or venue. Have fun exploring your city!
To qualify for a free public library card in New York City, you must be a resident of New York State or work for a company or go to school in New York City. Visit your library’s website to get started.
Ready to start planning your next cultural outing? Download Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app, to access expert-curated content and guides to hundreds of museums around the world—including dozens of Culture Pass partner organizations in NYC.