Free Museum Pass for Military Families

Hey neighbors,

Help us spread the word to families with an active military member. Museums across the Commonwealth are participating in the Blue Star Museums Initiative and will be offering free admission to military personnel and their families through Labor Day, September 6, 2010.

Active duty military personnel and/or up to five immediate family members (spouse or child) can gain free access by showing either a Geneva Conventions CAC ID or a DD Form 1173 ID card which includes active duty military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard), National Guard and Reserve members at the admissions desk.

Participating museums include:

Attleboro Arts Museum
Boston Children’s Museum
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis
Children’s Museum at Holyoke
Children’s Museum in Easton
Concord Museum
Discovery Museums, Acton
Fairbanks House, Dedham
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge
Historic New England, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Edgartown
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton
Nantucket Historical Association
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge
North Andover Historical Society
Old South Meeting House, Boston
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
South Shore Natural Science Center, Norwell
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

Image credit: from the National Archives at College Park – Archives II (College Park, MD), Creator: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Graphics. (07/31/1944 – 09/15/1945)