Genius Guide to FREE Science Museum Visits
Published:
September 8, 2019
Contributor:
Shannan Swindler
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Did you know that your family membership to a science museum can get your family (and maybe even a few friends) into science museums all of the United States and even to partnering museums around the world? Get the Genius Guide to FREE Science Museum Visits and find out how!
Science Museum memberships seem like the golden ticket, don’t they?
A science museum with excellent exhibits and hands-on resources for exploring new ideas are what homeschoolers look for when considering a membership to their local science museum. But they can be expensive, so we often stop looking.
Download the Genius Guide To FREE Science Museum Visits at the end of this post.
Getting into 370 science museums is as easy as buying one membership & getting into 369 museums for FREE!
Imagine visiting a natural history museum, observatory or even a science and art museum on your way to … well, anywhere really. There are over 370 museums currently participating in the ASTC Travel Passport program, with about 350 of the museums in the United States.
There are a few steps you need to take in order to ensure that the museum you want to visit for free will honor your valid science museum membership. But it’s not too hard, and it’s definitely worth it! The Genius Guide to Free Science Museum Visits (it’s a free printable) is a step-by-step guide to help you get into 370 science museums for the price of an annual family membership to a science museum close to you.
Why Do Homeschoolers Love Science Museum Memberships?
- Hand on exhibits for every age group.
- Interactive learning without the messy clean up of kitchen table science labs.
- Thought-provoking resources that help you bring to life specific aspects of your homeschool science curriculum.
- Discounts! Often there are discounts for the cafeteria, gift shop, etc. Sometimes those same discounts are extended to the other museums you can visit for free with the ASTC Travel Passport Program.
So grab your science museum membership & add free science field trips to your learning plan and your homeschool travel plan this year!
Here’s a list of the variety of museums included in the most recent list from museums participating in the program:
Here’s a list of the variety of museums included in the most recent list from museums participating in the program:
| Multi-Disciplinary Museums | 199 |
| Cultural Museums | 8 |
| Flight/Aviation Museums | 9 |
| Space/Rocket Museums | 10 |
| Wildlife Museums | 4 |
| Observatory/Planetarium | 17 |
| Natural History Museums | 19 |
| Children’s Museums | 40 |
| Museums on University Campus’ | 18 |
| Nature/Botanical/Garden | 10 |
| Technology/Transit | 13 |
| Marine/Oceanic | 5 |
| Medicine/Health | 5 |
Want to know which science museums are close to you or where you plan to visit? Here you go!
| Alabama | 6 |
| Alaska | 1 |
| Arizona | 5 |
| Arkansas | 3 |
| California | 36 |
| Colorado | 1 |
| Connecticut | 6 |
| Delaware | 3 |
| Florida | 22 |
| Georgia | 3 |
| Idaho | 1 |
| Illinois | 16 |
| Indiana | 10 |
| Iowa | 5 |
| Kansas | 5 |
| Kentucky | 5 |
| Louisiana | 4 |
| Maine | 2 |
| Maryland | 3 |
| Massachusetts | 7 |
| Michigan | 13 |
| Minnesota | 8 |
| Mississippi | 1 |
| Missouri | 4 |
| Montana | 4 |
| Nebraska | 4 |
| Nevada | 3 |
| New Hampshire | 4 |
| New Jersey | 2 |
| New Mexico | 7 |
| New York | 23 |
| North Carolina | 16 |
| North Dakota | 1 |
| Ohio | 9 |
| Oklahoma | 2 |
| Oregon | 7 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 2 |
| South Carolina | 1 |
| South Dakota | 2 |
| Tennessee | 7 |
| Texas | 17 |
| Utah | 5 |
| Vermont | 2 |
| Virginia | 10 |
| Washington | 9 |
| West Virginia | 10 |
| Wisconsin | 12 |
| Wyoming | 2 |
| Canada | 15 |
| Australia/Oceania | 6 |
| South America/Caribbean Islands | 3 |
| Europe/UK* | 2 |
| The Middle East/Africa | 5 |
*Some science museums in Europe and most in the United Kingdom are free. This list does not include the Smithsonian Museums in Washington D.C., which are also free.
Download The Genius Guide To FREE Science Museum Visits Here.
