Blue Star Museum Admissions

Memorial Day may be over, but military families can enjoy free museum entrance all summer long, starting on Memorial Day, ending on Labor Day (and some museums have special military entrance fees all year long). This partnership between museums and the National Endowment for the Arts, is in its second year, allowing free admission to more than 1,600 museums nationally.

Here are some of the the Bay Area participating museums (the list is not fully inclusive) - please confirm the museum you want to visit is on the official list.

SAN FRANCISCO
deYoung

Legion of Honor

Museum of Craft and Design

San Francisco Fire Department Museum

San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design

SFMOMA

Walt Disney Family Museum
Zeum (Children's Creativity Museum)

EAST BAY
Antioch Historical Society
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Forest Home Farms Historic Park and Glass House Museum
Habitot Children's Museum
Lawrence Hall of Science
Lindsay Wildlife Museum
McConaghy House Museum
MOCHA Museum of Children's Art
Museum of the San Ramon Valley
Oakland Museum of California
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum

MARIN
Bay Area Discovery Museum 

PENINSULA/SOUTH BAY
CuriOdyssey (formerly Coyote Point Museum)
Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo
San Jose Museum of Art
The Monterey Museum of Art
Filoli Gardens 

Click here for nationwide Blue Star Museum entrances.