To select a museum, click “Details/Reserve”, then select which Pass to reserve.
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA 02210
617-478-3100 https://www.icaboston.org/
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The building that houses the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston on Fan Pier is the first in the US designed by the architectural firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The museum was founded in 1936 as a sister institution to New York’s MoMA, though it had no permanent collection until starting one after moving into the new building on the waterfront in 2006. In addition to the collection, changing exhibitions, music, dance, film, talks, tours, family activities, and teen programming are offered throughout the year.
Categories: Art, Family, Music, Dance
Pass Benefits
This library membership pass entitles you to up to two tickets for Gallery Admission at the discounted Library Pass rate of $10.00 per person. Youth ages 18 and under admitted free.
Pass is valid through 8/31/2024
The ICA is open on the following national holidays, when admission is FREE for all: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Labor Day, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Library passes are not needed for those days.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115
617-566-1401 http://www.gardnermuseum.org/home/
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The Gardner Museum houses the collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a local patron of the arts who died in 1924, in a building she commissioned to look like a 15th century Venetian palazzo. The center of the original building showcases courtyard plantings that reflect the seasons as they evolve throughout the year. In addition to her collection, which remains displayed exactly she arranged it per her will, there are changing exhibitions, concerts, lectures, family events, and an artist-in-residence program. In 2012, the museum opened an addition designed by Renzo Piano that houses a space for their concert series.
Categories: Art, Family, Music
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 4 people at $5 per person. Children under the age of 18 are always admitted free.
When reserving Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum timed entry tickets online, you will:
1. Go to https://tnew.gardnermuseum.org/events
2. Submit the promo code in the box at the top of the screen
3. Select the visit date and a time to enter
4. Add desired number of tickets to the basket. The discount only works for up to 4 Adult priced tickets and any additional ticket will be normally priced (Children under 18 are always free and should be reserved as child tickets)
5. Login or create an account
6. Finish checking out (discount is applied only at checkout)
For assistance in reserving your admissions tickets, please click on the link here for step-by-step instructions.
This library pass does not guarantee a reservation to the Museum. If you have any issues reserving your tickets, you can call the Gardner Museum's Box Office at 617 278 5156.
PATRONS MUST PRESENT BOTH THIS LIBRARY PASS AND THEIR RESERVED TIMED MUSEUM ADMISSION TICKETS FOR ENTRY INTO THE MUSEUM.
For more information, including health and safety requirements, please visit isgm.org/welcome
MUSEUM HOURS: WEEKDAYS 11 AM – 5 PM | WEEKENDS 10 AM – 5 PM | THURSDAYS 11 AM – 9 PM | CLOSED TUESDAY | 25 EVANS WAY, BOSTON, MA 02115
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
617-267-9300 http://www.mfa.org/
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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in existence since July 4, 1876, is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world, with a collection of almost 500,000 works of art, ranging from ancient Egyptian artifacts to contemporary painting, sculpture and video. In addition, there are always special exhibitions on view, opportunities to take advantage of educational programs—some right in the galleries—and a contemplative Japanese garden.
Categories: Art, Family, History
Pass Benefits
Each pass allows admission for 2 adults at $10 each (general admission and special exhibition) and up to 4 children ages 7–17 at $10 each (special exhibition only). There is no discount for children 7–17 for general admission, currently $10. Children 6 and under are admitted free.
Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970-3783
978-745-9500 http://www.pem.org/
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The Peabody Essex Museum grew out of the collection of East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem captains whose charter called for acquisition of “natural and artificial curiosities.” Its permanent collection contains art and artifacts of Africa, Asia, India, China (with a Qing Dynasty house brought from the Huizhou region), Japan, Korea, Pacific Islands, and features objects of maritime art and history that include paintings, drawings, ship models, marine decorative arts, tools, weapons, navigational instruments, and ship and yacht plans. It also has a thriving changing exhibition schedule that sometimes includes important traveling shows.
Categories: Art, Family, History, Ocean
Pass Benefits
Pass provides discount code which admits 2 people to general museum admission at a reduced fee of $12 per person. Youth 16 and under receive free admission.
Admission to Yin Yu Tang, the Chinese House, and special ticketed exhibitions require the pass holder to pay a separate fee.
Once you receive your promo code via email, visit pem.org/tickets reserve passes online or call the PEM reservation line at 978-542-1511 to purchase your admission..
A discount code from reservation does not guarantee a reservation. Patrons should reserve a spot with PEM immediately after receiving the discount code.