The September 21 Museumgoer feature in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate checks out(!) three library-card programs that offer free admission to many great museums across New Orleans and around Louisiana. Read it here. Listen to a Museumgoer Podcast episode about the programs here. Some photos of the featured museums are below.
From the story:
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month, a promotion by the American Library Association. In addition to all the free learning and entertainment a library card unlocks, there’s a pathway at your local branch — almost everywhere you might be in Louisiana — to free admission at some of the state’s best museums. In addition to all the learning that those programs unlock, the opportunity represents a potential savings ranging into the hundreds of dollars.
- In Orleans Parish, the New Orleans Public Library’s Culture Pass program has a roster of more than a dozen museums and attractions, including French Quarter house museums, the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans and the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience.
- Experience Pass, a similar program at the Jefferson Parish Public Library, features a more limited partner roster which nonetheless includes the National WWII Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art and guided tours at the otherwise free Historic New Orleans Collection.
- The state’s Check Out Louisiana program has recently expanded from state parks to museums. Library cardholders in nearly 20 parishes can get a free one-day pass at more than a dozen museums, including Louisiana State Museum outlets such as the Cabildo, Presbytere and 1850 House in New Orleans, the stellar Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge and the Wedell-Williams Aviation & Cypress Sawmill Museum awaiting your discovery in Patterson.
