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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
9/11 Memorial & Museum
180 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007
212-312-8800 https://www.911memorial.org/
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Located in New York City at the World Trade Center site, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum tells the story of 9/11 through media, narratives, and artifacts, and honors those who were killed in the 2001 and 1993 attacks. There is a museum shop and café on the premises. All entrances and public areas of the Museum are wheelchair accessible. Standard manual wheelchairs and wheeled walkers are available free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis. Induction loops that transmit sound directly to visitors with T-coil compatible hearing aids and cochlear implants are installed throughout the Museum wherever there is audio.
Pass Benefits
Library Member:
Free, expedited admission to the Museum for two adults and two children (under 18 years old)
Complimentary audio guides
20% discount in the Museum Store
Invitations to Educational programming
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
718-623-7260 https://www.bbg.org/
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Founded in 1910, the 52-acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden is located near the Brooklyn Museum. Home to over 14,000 kinds specimens from all over the world, special gardens highlight various types of plants, with the botanic garden collections housed both indoors and out. Information about what's currently in bloom, suggested itineraries based on the time of the year, and a map of the grounds are available on the website. There is an art gallery, a small café, and gift store on the premises.
Categories: Art, Family, Nature, Science
Pass Benefits
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden pass admits two adults and accompanying children ages 17 and under. This pass is printable from your own device.
Passholders will also receive a 10% discount at the Garden Shop and café. Please be sure to check the garden's website for any facility changes due the weather or COVID restrictions at https://www.bbg.org/visit.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
212 West 83rd Street, The Tisch Building, New York, NY 10024
212-721-1223 https://www.cmom.org/
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The Children's Museum of Manhattan provides children with experiences at the intersection of the arts, sciences and the humanities. Their exhibitions are updated each month with new activities and programs, some appropriate for children as young as under one year old. Exhibitions include a seasonal outdoor water exhibit and changing exhibits based on art, music, governance, New York City, and cultures from around the world. The museum is wheelchair accessible except for the lower level of the water exhibit. There is a gift shop on the premises.
Categories: Art, Children, Family, Governance, History, Music
Pass Benefits
Each pass gives access to the Museum for 4 people at a time (2 adults and 2 children or 1 adult and 3 children). Additional guests must pay admission. This is a printable pass.
The Historic Sites of the Morris County Park Commission
Various locations, NJ
973-326-7600 https://www.morrisparks.net/index.php/education/historic-sites
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The Morris County Park Commission manages three historical sites at various locations, all them on the National Register of Historic Places. Fosterfields Living Historical Farm is a working farm situated on 213 acres which employs the tools, techniques, and materials of the 1920s. Originally built in built in 1826, the Cooper Gristmill at Black River County Park is one of the remaining restored water-powered mills in New Jersey. Historic Speedwell preserves the restored estate of Stephen Vail, proprietor of the Speedwell Iron Works from the early to mid-1800s, where Vail and Samuel B. Morse demonstrated the perfected telegraph in 1838. For directions and hours of each site, please visit the web site.
Categories: Architecture, Children, Family, History, Science
Pass Benefits
Fosterfields in Morristown: Find out about farm life as it was 100 years ago. On a self-guided tour with interpreters in historic costume along the way, help the farmers with chores such as feeding the chickens and churning butter, meet the Jersey cows and other barnyard animals, and enter the historic 1915 farmhouse where the Woods family lived. On Fridays and Saturdays, take a guided tour inside The Willows 1854 mansion (11am & 2pm) built by Gen. Joseph W. Revere, a grandson of patriot Paul Revere. Six children grew up at Fosterfields between 1870 and 1920, and you can explore the nostalgic toys, dolls, and playsets of that era in the exhibit Well Played: Changes in Childhood. Ready for a road trip back in time? The interactive exhibit Driving Into the 20th Century explains the changing landscape of transportation throughout the 1900s. You can also check out fully-restored antique cars and a climb-on Model T truck. Fosterfields is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm (last farm entry at 3 pm). Call (973) 326-7645 or email tours@morrisparks.net.
Historic Speedwell in Morristown: Experience life during the Industrial Revolution and the dawn of modern communication. This historic site includes the 1860s Vail House, and the Factory Building where the telegraph was first publicly demonstrated by Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail. The Factory Building features 30 interactives about the mechanics of the telegraph and its influence on modern communication. Learn about Ironmaster Stephen Vail and the dangerous art and industry of ironworking from the exhibit The Speedwell Ironworks: A History of Workers and Work. In the L’Hommedieu Visitor Center exhibit room, tour the exhibit Inventing Beauty to discover how concepts of beauty were informed by 19th century innovation and inventions, and also challenged distinctions between class and gender. Historic Speedwell is open Thursdays & Saturdays, 10 am to 4 pm. Call (973) 285-6550.
Cooper Gristmill in Chester: The 1826 Cooper Gristmill is one of the last operational historic mills in the area. Visitors experience simple machines, renewable power, and industrial progress as educators demonstrate how the site operated over a century ago. The History of the Black River Gorge exhibit about the natural and industrial history of Milltown, the community that sprung up around the Mill, sets the stage for a pleasant walk along Patriots Path whose trailhead is by the Visitor Center. Cooper Gristmill is open Fridays & Sundays, 10 am to 4 pm. Call (908) 879-5463.
This pass is not printable and must be picked up at the Parsippany Library (449 Halsey Road, Parsippany) to be borrowed. Please call the customer service desk at 973-887-5150 x 201 for questions.
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
West 46th Street, Pier 86, New York, NY 10036
877-957-7447 http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/
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The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located on the Hudson River in Manhattan, features the legendary aircraft carrier Intrepid, the space shuttle Enterprise, some of the world's fastest jets, and a guided missile submarine. The ship is now a National Historic Landmark, having served tours of duty in World War II and the Vietnam War, and acted as a recovery vessel for the Gemini and Mercury space missions. In addition to more than two dozen authentically restored aircraft, the museum includes the Exploreum Interactive Hall, an interactive exhibit space; an 18,000 sq. ft. education center; “Growler,” the only American diesel-powered strategic missile submarine open to the public; and Pier 86.
Categories: Children, Family, History, Military, Technology, Ocean, Sky
Pass Benefits
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum pass admits 2 adults and 2 children. The pass provides access to the express, members only admission line. This pass is printable from your own device.
Please be sure to check the museum's website for any facility changes due to COVID restrictions at https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/.
Click on the following link to learn about the Vaccine Mandate for Museum visitors: https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/LatestNews/August-2021/NYC-Vaccine-Mandate-for-Museum-Visitors
Morris Museum
6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ 07960
973-971-3700 https://www.morrismuseum.org/
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Founded in 1913, the Morris Museum is home to a rather eclectic mix of collections focusing on fossils, local wildlife, model trains, minerals, Native Americans, and paintings and sculpture, among other things. The jewel of the museum, however, is the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, a demonstration of which is conducted every Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 pm. Part of the museum is in a Georgian-style mansion designed by Stanford White. There is a museum shop on the premises.
Categories: Art, Children, Family, History, Music
Pass Benefits
The Morris Museum pass admits 2 adults and 3 children. This pass can be borrow for a week. This pass is not printable and must be picked up at the Parsippany Library (449 Halsey Road, Parsippany) to be borrowed. Please call the customer service desk at 973-887-5150 x 201 for questions. The museum is open the first Tuesday of each month for members from 11 am to 2 pm in addition to regular hours. Please be sure to check the museum's website for any facility changes due to COVID restrictions at https://morrismuseum.org/visit/.
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts
9 Main Street, Madison, NJ 07940
973-377-2982 https://www.metc.org/
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Founded in 1970, the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts is focused on New Jersey history through the presentation of exhibits—both permanent and changing—related to the lives of the early immigrants to the state. Housed in an 1899 Richardsonian-Romanesque Revival building (once home to the first library in Madison, NJ), the permanent collection consists of over 8,900 objects that include tools, textiles, pottery, and archival materials that tell the stories of the people who lived and worked in New Jersey before the arrival of the Industrial age. There is a gift shop on the premises.
Categories: Crafts, Family, History
Pass Benefits
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts pass admits two adults and accompanying children ages 18 and under. This pass is printable from your own device.
Please be sure to check the museum's website for any facility changes due to COVID restrictions at https://metc.org/.
Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
1020 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
215-733-0390 https://www.phillymagicgardens.org/
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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is a 3,000 sq. ft. museum on South Street in Philadelphia. Its outdoor space is dedicated to a large immersive mixed media art environment created by the mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar using handmade tiles, bottles, bicycle wheels, mirror, and international folk art to chronicle his life and influences. Two indoor exhibition areas host work by other artists from around the world in service of the institution's mission of preserving folk, mosaic, and visionary art.
Pass Benefits
Free general admission for 2 adults and up to 3 children (under age 18) per card for one year.
Discounted admission for additional guests (up to 6 per visit).
Free admission and discounts to over 750 other arts, cultural, and historical institutions with North American Reciprocal Museum Association (NARM) and Reciprocal Organization of Associated Museums (ROAM).
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
212-423-3500 https://www.guggenheim.org/
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The Guggenheim Museum's home in New York is in unique building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright which was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2008. Its permanent collection contains many well-known 20th century works, including art from various movements, including—but not limited to—Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, German and Austrian Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual art. Temporary exhibitions draw from both the museum's collection and outside sources. A museum shop is on the premises.
Categories: Architecture, Art, Family
Pass Benefits
Two membership cards which each provide free express admission for up to four adults or students, plus $5 admission for a maximum of two additional guests. Children under 12 years of age are always free.
10% savings on-site and online at the Guggenheim Store and 25% discount during biannual Member Shopping Weeks.
This pass is not printable and must be picked up at the Parsippany Library (449 Halsey Road, Parsippany) to be borrowed. Please call the customer service desk at 973-887-5150 x 201 for questions.
Yogi Berra Museum
8 Yogi Berra Drrive, Montclair State University, Little Falls, NJ 07424
973-655-2378 https://www.yogiberramuseum.org/
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This museum presents a number of permanent and rotating exhibitions—and an introductory film—which tell the story of Yogi Berra, while exploring history, culture, science and society within the larger context of baseball and sports. The permanent collection includes photographs, art, and artifacts, such as 16 vintage catcher's mitts and 76 oil paintings by renowned baseball artist Andy Jurinko that document the players that defined Yogi's era. An interactive pitching experience lets visitors of all ages face off against an animated batter, tracking the speed and accuracy of every throw. There is a gift store on the premises.
Categories: Family, History, Sports
Pass Benefits
The Yogi Berra Museum pass admits two adults and accompanying children ages 18 and under. This pass is printable from your own device.
Please be sure to check the museum's website for any facility changes due to COVID restrictions at https://yogiberramuseum.org/.