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This Bank of America’s Free Museum On Us Program post is updated for 2023. Bank of America customers can check out museums, gardens, and more for free on the first fullweekend of each month.

When we’re on vacation, we like visiting local history museums and learning about the area. If you’re going to visit, it’s so important to know the history of the area you’re visiting and how the town you’re in came to be. Sure, barhopping is fun. And we love to eat our way through town. But it’s fun to learn about the town too.

​Plus, if you’re looking for a rainy day activity, museums are often completely indoors (with the exception of living museums), so they’re great on bad weather days.

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They’re also great if you’re a Bank of America cardholder. On the first Saturday and Sunday of each month, Bank Of America hosts a Free Museums on Us weekend. Bank of America cardholders can get complimentary general admission to various museums, zoos, science centers, botanical gardens and more.

If a month starts on a Sunday, the Museums On Us weekend will be the second weekend of the month. In all other instances, Museums On Us weekend is the first weekend of the month.

Search by city or zip code, whichever is easier. On that list, you’ll also see a designation of “Saturdays only” or “Sundays only”. Sometimes, a participating institutionwill only participate one of the two days of the weekend, and that will be noted. If there’s no notation, it means the museum participates on both days.

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If you’re in Wilmington, NC like I am, the Cameron Arts Museum is a participating museum. And, if you want to go where we’ve been, the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Floridaand the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington are on the list.

It also includes Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey (which is so fun for kids but can definitely get expensive, so this is a great deal for that museum).

The Smithsonian hosts Museum Day, which is an annual nationwide program that grants free admission at participating museums. Museum Day is open to anyone and you have to register because participating museums have a limited number of free ticketsfor that day.

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Active Bank of America, Merrill, or Bank of America Private Bank (U.S. Trust) credit or debit cardholders, with a valid photo ID, are eligible for free access to participating museums.

Cardholders can get one free general admission ticket. And, you will actually be given a physical ticket, just like any paying visitor. So you will be restricted to whatever that general admission ticket allows.

Cardholders are eligible for one free ticket, valid for the individual cardholder. It’s not valid for family members. So, if you’re heading to the museum with a child who doesn’t have a credit or debit card, you have to pay for your child to enter. (Side note: I’ve heard that museums have been lenient with children’s admissions, so don’t let that deter you from checking out a museum. You may be surprised at the admissions desk.)

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Authorized users are able to participate in the Museums On Us program. So if your children are authorized users of your Bank Of America account, you can get them their owncard. Then, that card can be used during Museums On Us days.

Ticketed, special exhibitions, and fundraising events are excluded from this offer. Access to those programs/exhibits may be available for an additional fee. Be sure to check with your local museum for additional details (since museums are allowed to make their own rules for this program).

So, let’s say you’re planning a trip to San Antonio, Texas. There are five museums in San Antonio that participate in the Museums On Us program: Briscoe Western Art Museum, The DoSeum: San Antonio’s Museum For Kids, Witte Museum, McNay Art Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. You can actually go to all of those in one weekend, if you wanted, completely for free.

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I’m not saying you should plan your vacation around a Museums On Us weekend. But, if you happen to be planning a vacation during the first weekend of a month, check to see if there are any participating museums in the area.

You are not limited to one museum per Museums On Us weekend. You can go to as many as you have time for.

To expand on this, you can go to a museum on Saturday, and, if you loved it or you’re just bored and looking for something to do, you can go back again on Sunday. There’s no one who is going to stop you.

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Can’t make it to a participating museum? Or just don’t have a the necessary bank card to partake in this? No worries.

You can check out one of these virtual tours: 20+ Free Virtual Museum Tours, 10+ Virtual Zoo Tours, or the Buffalo Trace Distillery Virtual Tour.

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If you're like me, you like free things. I especially like to travel the world for next to nothing using credit card points and miles. Then, once I get to wherever I'm going, I look for inexpensive and free things to do. 

If you're looking to save money on your next outing, whether close to home or on the other side of the globe, consider hitting up a museum. One of the best deals out there is right here in the U.S.:

Bank of America gives FREE general admission to its cardholders at over 225 museums and cultural centers around the U.S. on the first full weekend (Saturday and Sunday) of each month. 

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The program is called Museums on Us and anyone with a Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, or Bank of America (U.S. Trust) debit or credit card (including authorized users) can take advantage of it.

Free museum days fall on the first full weekend of every month. For 2024, the dates of the Bank of America Museums on Us program are:

1. Show up at one of the participating museums, zoos, science centers, aquariums, or botanical gardens on the first full weekend of the month.

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2. Show an active Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, or Bank of America (U.S. Trust) credit or debit card and a photo ID.

Know before you go: This perk is only good for the actual Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, or Bank of America (U.S. Trust) credit or debit cardholder, so unless your guests have their own card, they will have to pay the admission fee (although they seem to be lenient with children’s admission fees). Luckily, it’s easy to get free additional cards for your family, which seems worth it for this perk!

A total of 38 states and 154 cities, plus Washington, D.C., participate in the Museums On Us Program, which means you've got a lot of exploring to do!

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The best part is, there is no limit on how many times you can visit, or how many museums you can see. So, if you live in a city with one of these museums, you can go see the new exhibits every month.

This is an amazing FREE perk that few people seem to know about and even fewer take advantage of, and I’m on a mission to change that.

Me with my Bank of America Travel Rewards card standing in front of The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC – we got in for free, of course!

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My wife and I saved over $90 in a single weekend by taking advantage of this program when we were on vacation in North Carolina a few months ago. Taking the time to find out what you can get for free is a great

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