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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 Frick Collection
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Frick Madison, New York, NY 10021
212-288-0700 https://www.frick.org/
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The Gilded Age mansion in Manhattan that the Frick Collection occupies is being renovated, so the museum and library have temporarily taken up residence in the former home of the Whitney Museum a few blocks away. Visitors to Frick Madison will encounter paintings and sculptures by Bellini, Clodion, Gainsborough, Goya, Holbein, Houdon, Ingres, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Turner, Velázquez, Vermeer, Whistler, among many others. The installation also spotlights the Frick's holdings of decorative arts and sculpture, as well as rarely seen works.
Categories: Architecture, Art, Family
Pass Benefits
The Frick Collection pass admits up to four guests. Children under 10 are not admitted. This pass is printable from your own device.
NOTE: Frick Collection is only open at its temporary home on Madison Ave.
Doors will close at 5:30 pm to enter the museum.
Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042
973-746-5555 https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/
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The Montclair Art Museum features a permanent collection of more than 12,000 objects consisting of paintings, prints, original works on paper, photographs, and sculpture by American artists from the 18th century to the present—including one-time Montclair resident George Inness—as well as traditional and contemporary Native American art and artifacts. While space constraints prevent the display of every work at any given time, temporary exhibitions often draw from the collection, in addition to shows of contemporary art sourced from outside the museum.
Pass Benefits
The Montclair Art Museum pass admits two people per pass. This pass is printable from your own device.
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 the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
212-534-1672 https://www.mcny.org/
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Founded in 1923, the Museum of the City of New York is dedicated to the documentation and interpretation of the city's past, present, and future. Its collection contains approximately 750,000 objects, including prints, photographs, decorative arts, costumes, paintings, sculpture, toys, and theatrical memorabilia. In the collection are several of Eugene O'Neill's handwritten manuscripts, a complete room of Duncan Phyfe furniture, 412 glass negatives taken by Jacob Riis and donated by his son, a man's suit worn to George Washington's Inaugural Ball, and the Carrie Walter Stettheimer dollhouse, which contains a miniature work by Marcel Duchamp. Changing exhibitions celebrate different aspects of the city's vibrant and changing culture. Wheelchairs are available for visitor use free of charge, subject to availability. All exhibition videos are open captioned and assistive listening devices are available for various programs in the Ronay Menschel Hall.
Categories: Architecture, Art, Children, Family, History
Pass Benefits
The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to offer two membership levels for local and public libraries that provide their patrons access to our exhibitions and programs, as well as discounts in our Museum Shop and café. Additional benefits include a subscription to the Museum’s scholarly journal, and invitations to exclusive Member events.
The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102
973-596-6550 https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/
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Founded in 1909, the Newark Museum of Art is the state's largest museum, with over 80 galleries dedicated to art and science. In addition to exhibiting a range of decorative arts, contemporary art, and art from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world, its holdings include a large natural science collection. The Victoria Hall of Science, the Dreyfuss Planetarium, a Victorian-era home, an 18th century schoolhouse, the Newark Fire Museum, and a memorial garden may all be found at a visit to this eclectic museum.
Categories: Art, History, Parks, Science
Pass Benefits
Free admission for two adults and all children in the household -10% Discount in the Museum Shops. This pass is printable from your own device.
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.
The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
2352 Route 10 West, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
973-540-0311 https://www.stickleymuseum.org/
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The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, a National Historic Landmark, is located on 30 acres of the early 20th-century country estate of furniture designer, architect, manufacturer, publisher, philosopher, and social critic Gustav Stickley. The main building—the 1911 “Log House”—is considered to be one of the finest expressions of the Arts and Crafts movement in the country. The permanent collection, consisting of more than 6,000 objects and artifacts, includes furniture, metalwork, textiles, and ceramics. Changing exhibits focus on the important contributions made by Stickley to the movement he championed so fervently. Tours of the grounds are available.
Categories: Architecture, Art, Crafts, Family, History
Pass Benefits
Benefits of the Museum Pass include:
Unlimited, complimentary admission for museum patrons for one year (pass admits 2 adults and all children up to the age of 18 from a single household). Notice of special events. Receive e-blast and print mailings.
Storm King Art Center
1 Museum Road, New Windsor, NY 12553
845-534-3115 https://www.stormking.org/
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Originally founded to exhibit a collection of Hudson River School paintings, Storm King Art Center is a museum located on 500-acres in New York's Hudson Valley. Currently, the museum collects, exhibits, and conserves modern and contemporary art—from large-scale sculpture situated in Storm King's expansive landscape and site-specific earthworks to related drawings and photographs. The core collection includes pieces by Alexander Calder, David Smith, Mark di Suvero, Henry Moore, Douglas Abdell, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, and Louise Nevelson. More recently acquired work includes large-scale sculptures by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alice Aycock, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Liberman, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, and Maya Lin. Food is available on the premises.
Pass Benefits
One Library Membership Pass, valid for free six-person car admission, limited to one vehicle per day, per Membership. Ticketless admission, no advance reservation required for Library Membership Pass holders. Entry to Storm King’s grounds during Member-only hours for Library Membership Pass holders. 10% discount on Museum Store purchases, limited to purchases made by the Library. 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.