I just discovered that if you are a member of a museum or science centre you may be entitled to free entrance to other museums around the world.
http://www.astc.org/members/passlist.htm
As an example if you belong to the Ontario Science Centre you can go to
At-Bristol
Anchor Road, Harbourside
Bristol, England, U.K.
web site: http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/
Glasgow Science Centre
50 Pacific Quay
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
web site: http://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/
National Museum of Science & Industry
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London, England, U.K.
web site: http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/
Techniquest
Stuart Street
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
web site: http://www.techniquest.org/
ROM and AGO Contributing, Supporting, Sustaining, Fellow and Curators' Circle Members are entitled to the following Reciprocal Benefits:
•free admission to the museum
•the same admission to special exhibitions as offered to members of that museum
•admission to members’ previews
•the discounts to the shops and bookstores offered to the members of that museum
Participating Museums:
•Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
•Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
•Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
•The Baltimore Museum of Art
•Brooklyn Museum
•Bruce Museum, Greenwich
•The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk
•Cincinnati Art Museum
•Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
•Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
•Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
•High Museum of Art, Atlanta
•The Indianapolis Museum of Art
•Knoxville Museum of Art
•Milwaukee Art Museum
•Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
•The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
•Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
•The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
•The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
•New Orleans Museum of Art
•Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
•Phoenix Art Museum
•San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
•San Jose Museum of Art
•Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
•The Vancouver Art Gallery
•Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
•Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
•Worcester Art Museum
You are so cool. Now I never would have known this in a hundred years. We're getting older and it's hard for us to walk about too much now, but a museum is still a fine source of education and a place we enjoy visiting. Thank you for sharing this information.
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