{"id":2703,"date":"2010-07-30T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/30\/hot-museum-deals\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:43:01","slug":"hot-museum-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/hot-museum-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Museum Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t$5 or Less Promotions<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHappy hour has a whole new meaning at the Please Touch Museum<\/a> in Phila., where admission on every first Wednesday (Aug. 4 this month) is only $2 from 5-7pm. Regular admission to the museum is $15. <\/p>\n \n\tAdmission to the National Constitution Center<\/a> on Thursday nights through August is $5 (regularly $8-$12) from 5-8pm. During family activities those nights, kids can explore the connections between Philadelphia’s past and present.<\/p>\n \n\tDollar Days continue at Hagley Museum & Library<\/a> in Wilmington, DE on Thursdays through August. Regular admission is $4-11. Admission is also $1 on Tuesdays in August at the Delaware Museum of Natural History<\/a> in Wilmington (regularly $5-$7).<\/p>\n \n\tFree-admission Community Nights<\/a> at The Franklin Institute<\/a> in Phila. run every third Wednesday (Aug. 18 this month), except in December. You can check out all the permanent exhibits for free from 5-8pm, and free tickets are usually available for IMAX and 3D shows, too.<\/p>\n \n\tCombo Savings<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tA combo-ticket deal between The Franklin Institute and the Penn Museum<\/a> in Phila. offers discounted admission to both museums, including the special Cleopatra<\/em> exhibit at The Franklin through January. Tickets for $22-$32 (a savings of $3.50-$4.50) are available at either museum. At the Penn Museum after 3:30pm any day except Monday (and after 4pm on Sunday), museum admission is pay-what-you-wish. Half of the Penn Museum galleries are not air-conditioned, so save a trip to Penn for a cooler day.<\/p>\n \n\tFree Art Museums<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tPay-what-you-wish admission is available all day on the first Sunday (Aug. 1 this month) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>, and Sundays there feature children’s tours & family art projects. Admission to the Woodmere Art Museum<\/a> in Chestnut Hill, PA and the Biggs Museum<\/a> in Dover, DE is always free (both are closed Mondays) and the Delaware Art Museum<\/a> in Wilmington offers free admission all day on Sunday.<\/p>\n \n\tMilitary Discount<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tMilitary families with proper ID can gain free admission to more than 700 “Blue Star Museums” nationwide through Labor Day. The Academy of the Natural Sciences<\/a> in Phila. and the Delaware Children's Museum<\/a> in Wilmington are among local museums participating in the promotion.<\/p>\n \n\tStephanie Halinski is calendar editor of MetroKids.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beat the heat in museums’ air-conditioned galleries while taking advantage of these hot discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[8745,6721,368,9714,3165,4848,14,117,1791,391,8760,1319,2630,3133,9716,424,9713,8470,369,9709,6716,9712,363,684,5487,136,12,412,365,960,9715,3935,9710,9711,9718,9717,7352,7922,1464],"yoast_head":"\n