! The following library branch is closed on the selected date, which may affect your ability to receive passes that require picking up in person.
- Indian Valley Public Library
To select a museum, click “Details/Reserve”, then select which Pass to reserve.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Bucks County Children’s Museum
500 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA 18938
215-693-1290
https://www.buckskids.org/
[Details/Reserve]
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 Type: Printable/Digital Coupon Pass (link delivered by email)
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/
[Details/Reserve]
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 Type: Printable/Digital Coupon Pass (link delivered by email)
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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Donated by Harleysville Bank
Mennonite Heritage Center
565 Yoder Road, Harleysville, PA 19438
215-256-3020
https://www.mhep.org/
[Details/Reserve]
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 Type: Printable/Digital Coupon Pass (link delivered by email)
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/
[Details/Reserve]
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 Type: Circulating Pass (must be picked up and returned to the branch)
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. Library passes will be good for daily admission at both Mercer Museum and at Fonthill Castle throughout the holiday season. Daily admission includes Mercer Museum Timed Admission and Fonthill Castle Winter Wonderland Daily Guided Tours.
Two other ways of visiting Fonthill Castle for the holidays are Holiday Evening Tours on weekday nights and Holiday Lights Meander on weekends in December. These are not included in daily admission. Library pass users will receive our discounted member rate for those programs.
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/
[Details/Reserve]
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 Type: Circulating Pass (must be picked up and returned to the branch)
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.
Donated by NYCO Corp
The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
105 Seminary Street, Pennsburg, PA 18073
215-679-3103
https://www.schwenkfelder.org/
[Details/Reserve]
The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center allows visitors to explore religious freedom, tolerance, migration, and heritage through the history of the Schwenkfelders. Heavily persecuted in Europe, these Protestants arrived here in the early 1700s seeking religious freedom. The museum's extensive collection consists of three- and two-dimensional artifacts, textiles, and art, including various household furnishings and farm tools from the colonial period through the early 20th century. The library contains many primary and secondary sources on Schwenkfelder and Silesian history, local history, genealogy, and Pennsylvania German history and culture. A Pennsylvania German barn, constructed in 1826, was moved to the grounds in 2020. There is also a gift shop on the premises. A wheelchair is available at no charge. All floors are accessible by elevator; the upper level of the barn is accessible by lift.
Pass Type: Printable/Digital Coupon Pass (link delivered by email)
Pass Benefits
This pass admits all members of your group.
To promote local museums, we included this museum in the museum pass program, even though it offers free admission.
USS Constitution Museum
Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 22, Charlestown, MA 02129
617-426-1812
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/
[Details/Reserve]
The museum, a part of the Boston National Historical Park, is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard near the ship USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) at the end of Boston’s Freedom Trail. The museum provides a detailed look at the history of the ship, information about the war of 1812, and the battle between the ship and HMS Java. Stories are told through interactive exhibits, unique artifacts, archival records, and artwork. The museum also includes a research library which houses a strong collection of manuscripts, books, artifacts, and microfilm of primary source material. The ship itself is maintained by the US Navy, and may be visited free of charge on certain days.
Categories: Art, Family, History, Ocean
Pass Type: Printable/Digital Coupon Pass (link delivered by email)
Pass Benefits
Pass holders will receive free admission to the Museum. Each pass may only be used by one party per day. Parties are limited to 9 or fewer guests. Appropriate for ages 2-99.