Arts & Entertainment

Free Museum Passes for Library Patrons

A new program provides library card holders who are Alameda County residents with free passes to local museums and cultural institutions.

Looking for something fun, educational and free to do with the family? Have guests coming to town and want to show off the area’s cultural highlights? 

In partnership with the Contra Costa County Library, Alameda County Library announces Discover & Go, a service providing library card holders who are Alameda County residents with free passes to local museums and cultural institutions. 

A first of its kind, Discover & Go provides access to passes that can be printed online rather than traditional passes that must be picked up and returned to the library. 

Each Discover & Go pass expires after the reservation date – no returns required and no possibility for overdue fines. This unique program allows library users to make reservations online by date or by venue and immediately print a pass, or print later. Customers without Internet access can reserve a pass by telephone or reserve and print in person at any Alameda County library.

Beginning Aug. 15, library cardholders can reserve passes from a growing list of destinations, including:

  • Aquarium of the Bay
  • Asian Art Museum
  • Bay Area Discovery Museum
  • Bedford Gallery Blackhawk Museum
  • California Historical Society
  • Cartoon Art Museum
  • The Contemporary Jewish Museum
  • Exploratorium
  • Lindsay Wildlife Museum
  • Museum of Children's Art
  • Oakland Museum of California
  • Oakland Zoo
  • Pacific Pinball Museum
  • San Jose Museum of Art
  • Tech Museum of Innovation
  • USS Hornet Museum
  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  • To get your museum passes, click here.

Information from an Alameda County Library press release


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