To select a museum, click “Details/Reserve”, then select which Pass to reserve.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Bucks County Children’s Museum
500 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA 18938
215-693-1290 https://www.buckskids.org/
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The Bucks County Children's Museum, located in New Hope, PA, provides opportunities to learn through playing for children, from walking one-year-olds to those seven years of age. Themed interactive exhibits include a turn-of-the-century general store and train, Factory Works (an area for fostering engineering skills), a medicine area for “ambulance drivers” and “junior doctors,” a fossil “dig,” and Airways to Waterways (dedicated to air, wind and energy of light experiments). Sensory backpacks are available for children with special needs. The museum is ADA compliant, with one level and most exhibits accessible by wheelchair.
Categories: Children, Family, Science
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 6 people (ages 1 and up). Children under 1 are free.
Timed tickets are required. Library patrons who check out a museum pass ALSO must reserve tickets in advance on the museum’s website www.buckskids.org. Please make a reservation after booking the pass from IVPL. Printable.
Donated by Harleysville Auto Tags
Independence Seaport Museum
211 South Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-413-8655 https://www.phillyseaport.org/
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The Independence Seaport Museum, located at Penn's Landing—a waterfront area on the Delaware River in Philadelphia—is dedicated to the area's maritime history. Its unique collection includes artifacts, archival materials, and art connected to centuries of comings and goings on the Delaware River. The museum features interactive exhibits, two historic ships—a World War I steel floating warship and a World War II submarine, and a boat shop where the museum's collection is maintained, and wooden vessels are restored and built.
Categories: Children, Family, History, Military, Ocean
Pass Benefits
The Independence Seaport Museum and Cruiser Olympia are open 7-days a week from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Please view the Museum's website, phillyseaport.org, to view a complete list of policies and the Visitor Code of Conduct before your visit.
Library Pass Holders are walk-up tickets only and admits 2 Adults (18 and up) and 4 Children (3 to 17). Children under 3 are free.
You will need to check-in at the front desk for both the Museum and Cruiser Olympia and cannot reserve tickets online prior to your visit. Submarine Becuna is open for guided tours only and is NOT part of the Museum's general admission. Please note that Submarine Becuna and Olympia Engine Room guided tours are not included with your admission. You may purchase tour tickets at the front desk.
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Mennonite Heritage Center
565 Yoder Road, Harleysville, PA 19438
215-256-3020 https://www.mhep.org/
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The Mennonite Heritage Center, located in Harleysville, PA, is a museum and library dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of over 300 years of Mennonite faith and life in eastern Pennsylvania. The center houses an exhibit that provides an overview of Mennonite faith and life; a gallery displaying examples of “fraktur;” a research library containing archival, manuscript and artifact collections; and a series of changing exhibitions. A gift shop is on the premises.
Pass Benefits
$7.00 suggested admission for exhibits and library (no charge for MHC members and children under 12).
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
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Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle
84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
215-345-0210 https://www.mercermuseum.org/
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The Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle are two poured-in-place concrete castles designed and built by gentleman anthropologist and tile maker Henry Mercer in the early 20th century. Located in Doylestown, PA, both structures—one built as a museum, the other as his home—now house his collections, each equally interesting as architecture. The museum complex features local and national traveling exhibits; a collection of over 50,000 pre-Industrial tools; a research library focused on the history of Bucks County and the surrounding region; and a gift shop. Fonthill Castle houses the famed decorative Moravian tiles Mercer produced during the American Arts & Crafts Movement.
Categories: Architecture, Crafts, Family, History
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 4 people (6 and up). Children 5 and under are free.
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
Donated by the Souderton-Telford Rotary
Museum of the American Revolution
101 South Third Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-253-6731 https://www.amrevmuseum.org/
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The Museum of the American Revolution, located in Philadelphia, has a collection dedicated to the history of the American Revolution. Its holdings, numbering in the thousands, include rare books, manuscripts, period objects, and artwork. The exhibits deliver the story of the American Revolution chronologically and include recreations of locations of importance to the conflict, a large model of an 18th century ship, a 13-star flag, the Pennsylvania Evening Post's printing of the Declaration of Independence (the first in a newspaper), and the tent of George Washington's which functioned as his field headquarters, among other interesting artifacts. There is a gift store and café on the premises.
Categories: Family, Governance, History, Military
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 2 adults and 4 children (ages 6 to 17). Children 5 and under are free.
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
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Penn Museum
3260 South Street , Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-4000 https://www.penn.museum/
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The Penn Museum is located in a unique Arts and Crafts and Eclectic style building on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. It is home to over a million artifacts, ethnographic objects, and archaeological finds from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Mediterranean. Begun in 1887, the collection is organized in eleven curatorial sections documenting the peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Many of the items in the collection were obtained directly through its own field excavations or anthropological research. Highlights include a 16th century commemorative plaque from Benin; an old stone monument from Guatemala depicting a ruler surrounded by Mayan glyph writing; the Sphinx of Ramses II, the largest ancient Egyptian sphinx in the Western Hemisphere; a statue of a seated pharaoh Ramses II (1290–1224 BCE); a Sioux headdress, a war bonnet made around 1890; a cloisonné statue of a lion from the Qing Dynasty era; a large marble relief once part of a commemorative monument for the Roman emperor Domitian (95 CE); an amphora made in Athens around 535 BCE which depicts the death of Achilles in battle; and a terracotta sculpture of a female head of the type typically attached to the roof tiles of an Etruscan temple of the 4th century BCE. There is a gift shop and a café on the premises.
Categories: Architecture, Crafts, Family, History
Pass Benefits
This pass admits two adults (18 and up) and all dependent children (6-17) in a patron's household. Children 5 and under are free.
Tyler Arboretum
515 Painter Road, Media, PA 19063
610-566-9134 https://www.tylerarboretum.org/
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One of the oldest public gardens in the country, the Tyler Arboretum provides access to seasonally changing gardens, stands of towering trees (several state champions), 17 miles of hiking trails, and a number of historic buildings dating back to the 18th century. Among other attractions, its Wister Rhododendron Collection includes more than 500 different examples. Located on over 650 protected acres of beautiful woodland in Media, PA, the arboretum has a Visitor Center with a gift shop and opportunities for picnicking on the grounds.
Categories: Family, Nature, Recreation
Pass Benefits
This pass admits 4 people (ages 3 and up). Children 2 and under are free.
Please check with this site to find out if they required timed tickets to enter.
Donated by Bergman Engineering
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