On September xviii, Smithsonian Magazine will hold its 17th Free Museum Day. Free Museum Day was canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions in 2020, but it's back this year with 482 museums and cultural institutions across the country opening their doors to visitors for free.

At that place are options for just well-nigh every blazon of museumgoer.

The Fleischmann Planetarium and Scientific discipline Center in Reno, Nevada, is 1 of the participating museums. It has a dome theater with digital planetarium shows, exhibits like the "Exist the Astronaut" simulators, science demonstrations, and telescope viewings. Regular ticket prices are $15 for adults and $10 for kids, seniors, and students.

In New York Metropolis, the Intrepid Ocean, Air & Space Museum allows guests to visit the aircraft carrier Intrepid; enter Growler, a guided missile submarine; and run across dozens of aircraft, including the British Airways Concorde and the space shuttle Enterprise. All of that tin be seen for gratuitous instead of the regular admission price of $33 for adults and $24 for children betwixt the ages of v and 12.

Also participating is the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, with its cute Egypt galleries; the National WWII Museum in New Orleans; the Pueblo History Museum in Pueblo, Colorado; and the Dejection Hall of Fame in Memphis, amongst many others.

To proceeds free admission to the museums of your choice on Complimentary Museum Twenty-four hour period, all yous demand to do is visit the Museum Day website, scan the long list of museums, selection the one you wish to visit for free on September 18, and click the "Get a Ticket" button. From there, you'll be prompted to enter your email address and your proper noun, and you lot'll be able to download your free ticket that'south valid for ii people for one museum. If you want to visit ii museums on Free Museum Day, y'all'll need to utilize a different electronic mail address and go through the process described above once more.

Note that access to all Smithsonian museums in Washington, DC, is free year-round.

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