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Asynchronous2e

Museum/culture hacks

My family uses the free passes from our local library, visits free local museums (both home and traveling) and college museums & events, and purchases annual passes for each program (ie NAMM, ASTC, American Horticulture RAP…) to visit dozens of museums as many times as we like. Any other tips for museums/culture? We plan our trips around free reciprocity worldwide. We recently learned that we can find the cheapest museum on the list, buy the pass there even if we don’t live close to it, and use it throughout the museums on the list.

Posted Jun 13, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

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GotMySillySocksOn•

This would be a good tip for r/frugal as well !

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Asynchronous2eOP•

Hmmm I don’t know that one, but please repost there if you think it would be appreciated. We took the kids to NYC, only did free activities (plus the donation-suggested art museum) and discovered the national museum of math, one of the coolest museums we’ve ever seen.

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VanguardSucks•

A bit late but if you had your investment with Chase and qualified for Chase Private Client. They will give you free museum pass for lots of museum around the country.

It's late because Chase killed this benefit last month ...

The only thing like this out there is BoA:

https://www.cardbenefit.com/free-museum-admission-by-bank-of-america/

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Asynchronous2eOP•

Bummer. We just started with the Chase cards and don’t have our banking or investments with them.

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MuffyVonSchlitz•

Same idea for national parks, find the cheapest entrance and buy your annual pass there. Same for 6 flags too actually.

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darkmatterhunter•

I’m hoping my library restarts this soon, it’s still closed for Covid. You can even go to the aquarium which is neat.

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Asynchronous2eOP•

Yeah it’s pretty crazy what libraries cover: some expensive tickets and some free tickets (confusing but true!)

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eilig•

Not confusing at all! Libraries are awesome.

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