New Yorkers with a Library Card can Attend 30+ Museums for FREE
In addition to being able to stream 30,000 movies through Kanopy with your NYC-area library card, New Yorkers can now attend 30+ borough-based cultural locations for free with the Culture Pass initiative. NYTimes reports,
Do you have a New York City library card? If so, you can now go to the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim and 31 other prominent New York cultural institutions for free.
These institutions, which also include the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and MoMA PS1, have partnered with the New York City libraries to launch Culture Pass, an initiative designed to encourage underserved communities to take advantage of the city’s cultural bounty. Library cardholders of the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library will be able to reserve passes to these venues for free, albeit once a year.
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