A NYC library card now offers holders more benefits than just borrowing books.

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), The New York Public Library (NYPL, serving Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island), and Queens Library announced this week the launch of the Culture Pass. The Pass is a library-led, city-wide initiative providing FREE access to a number of cultural institutions across the five boroughs to library card holders.

“Culture Pass will help build awareness, expand audiences, and provide access for library patrons to New York’s world-class museums and cultural institutions,” said Linda E. Johnson, President and CEO of the Brooklyn Public Library. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with such esteemed visual arts and science museums.”

Card holders are now able to visit 33 of the city’s cultural institutions ranging from the Whitney Museum in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to the Noguchi Museum in Queens, Wave Hill in the Bronx, and Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island, at no cost.

Through Culture Pass, participating institutions will provide day-passes for library cardholders to reserve online and then display the printed or digital pass to gain FREE admission to a specified museum, cultural heritage site, garden, zoo, or performance venue, with the option of bringing between one and three guests.

“Libraries are already the gateway to knowledge, and now they can help connect New Yorkers with our city’s world-class cultural institutions,” said Mayor de Blasio. “This is another way that our libraries will continue to be the beating heart of communities across the city.”

Participating cultural institutions accessible through Culture Pass include:

  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Brooklyn Children’s Museum
  • Brooklyn Historical Society
  • Brooklyn Museum
  • Children’s Museum of Manhattan
  • Children’s Museum of the Arts
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • The Drawing Center
  • The Frick Collection
  • Historic Richmond Town
  • International Center of Photography
  • Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

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  • Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
  • The Jewish Museum
  • Louis Armstrong House
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Morgan Library & Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1
  • Museum of Chinese in America
  • Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • New York Transit Museum
  • Noguchi Museum
  • Queens Historical Society
  • Queens Museum
  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • SculptureCenter
  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
  • Society of Illustrators
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Sugar Hill Children’s Museum
  • Wave Hill
  • Whitney Museum of American Art

The Culture Pass team is working with select participating institutions to develop new, integrated educational programs at branch libraries tied to the cultural experiences offered through Culture Pass, including workshops, readings, artist or author talks, and other engagement opportunities.