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The Guide to FREE Museums Day

By Sylvina N. - Macaroni Kid Covina-West Covina August 26, 2016

Share the wonder of art, science, history and other various interests with your child for FREE using this handy list.  Please make sure to check the museum's website prior to your trip, as they sometimes change their "free day" policies depending on sponsorship funding. 

Monthly Free Museum Days

Bowers Museum (1st Sunday. Only to Kidseum and Family Festivals in the Key Courtyard. Regular museum paid admission will apply on Free Family Festival day. The Target Corporation is no longer sponsoring free admission to the museum on the first Sunday of the month.) Bowers offers free admission to all Santa Ana residents on Sundays. Proof of residency through an ID, driver's license or utility bill is required.

Craft and Folk Museum (1st Thursday 6.30-9.30pm)

Huntington Library (1st Thursday. Advance tickets are required and can be obtained the month prior to visit. Check here for tickets)

Japanese American National Museum (Every Thursday from 5-8 PM and every 3rd Thursday of the month-all day)

Kidspace Children's Museum (1st Tuesday from 4-8pm)

Los Angeles County Arboretum (3rd Tuesday)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2nd Tuesday, select federal holidays. Check website for additional sponsored free days)

Natural History Museum (1st Tuesday except July & August; Every Tuesday in September)

Norton Simon Museum (1st Friday, 5-8 pm)

Pacific Asia Museum (2nd Sunday)

Page Museum, La Brea Tarpits (1st Tuesday except July & August)

Pasadena Museum of California Art (1st Friday 12-5pm. 3rd Thursday 5-8pm)

South Coast Botanic Garden (3rd Tuesday)

The Autry (2nd Tuesday)

The Children's Museum at La Habra (1st Sunday. A limited number of hand stamps are given for Museum entrance for 1pm & 3.15pm time slots and are subject to availability)

 

Weekly Free Museum Days

Japanese American National Museum (every Thursday 5-8pm and all day every third Thursday)

Long Beach Museum of Art (Friday)

Museum of Latin American Art (Sunday)

Skirball Cultural Center (Thursday)


 

Always Free

Alhambra Historical Society (Check website for hours of operation, supported by volunteers)

California African American Museum

California Science Center

Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Glendora Historical Society Museum

Griffith Observatory

Hollywood Bowl Museum

Hurst Ranch, West Covina (Check ahead for hours of operation, supported by volunteers)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Free with online NextGen enrollment)

Los Angeles Maritime Museum

MOCA Pacific Design Center

Olvera Street, El Pueblo de Los Angeles

Pacific Railroad Society, San Dimas

Santa Monica Museum of Art (Suggested $5 donation)

The Getty Center ($15 parking)

The Getty Villa (Timed ticket required, $15 parking)

The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum (Saturdays, 10-4)

Travel Town Museum

UCLA Hammer Museum

USC Fisher Museum of Art

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, City of Industry


PLEASE CONFIRM ALL DATES AND TIMES ON MUSEUM'S WEBSITE AS THEY MAY CHANGE OR END THE OFFER AT ANY TIME!