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ASTC Travel Passport Program Participants The Passport Program entitles you to free general admission. For contact, address, and admission benefit information Kentucky on our partner museums listed below, please visit astc.org/passport. Restrictions apply to museums located within 90 East Kentucky Science Center & Planetarium, Prestonsburg miles of the Field Museum. To receive ASTC reciprocal benefits, you must have your membership card. Be sure to call Highlands Museum & Discovery Center, Inc., Ashland the institution before your visit to confirm your reciprocal benefits. Hopewell Museum, Paris Kentucky Science Center, Louisville Residency restrictions may apply if you live within 90 miles of the museum you plan to visit. Living Arts and Science Center, Lexington Call the ASTC museum before you visit! Don’t forget your membership card and photo ID! Owensboro Museum of Science and History, Owensboro Alabama Delaware River Discovery Center, Paducah Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington Louisiana Mary G. Harden Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden Iron Hill Museum (Delaware Academy of Science), Newark Lafayette Science Museum, Lafayette McWane Science Center, Birmingham Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham Florida Louisiana Children's Museum, New Orleans U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville Aerospace Discovery Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Sci-Port Discovery Center, Shreveport Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention, Gainsville Alaska Challenger Learning Center of Tallahasee, Tallahassee Maine Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Ctr., Anchorage Charlotte County Historical Center, Punta Gorda Children's Discovery Museum, Augusta Discovery Center, Ocala Maine Discovery Museum, Bangor Arizona Emerald Coast Science Center, Fort Walton Beach Arizona Science Center, Phoenix Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville Maryland Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium/UA Mineral The Gillespie Museum, DeLand College Park Aviation Museum, College Park Museum, Tucson Glazer Children's Museum, Tampa Discovery Station at Hagerstown, Inc., Hagerstown International Wildlife Museum, Tucson Great Explorations Children's Museum, St Petersburg Maryland Science Center, Baltimore Kitt Peak National Observatory Visitor Center, Tucson IMAG History & Science, Fort Myers Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff Loggerhead Marine Life Center, Juno Beach Massachusetts MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry), Tampa Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield Arkansas Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach Boston Children's Museum, Boston Scott Family Amazeum, Bentonville Museum of Discovery & Science, Fort Lauderdale EcoTarium, Worcester Mid-America Science Museum, Hot Springs Museum of Science & History of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Cambridge Museum of Discovery, Little Rock Orlando Science Center, Orlando Museum of Science, Boston Pensacola MESS Hall, Pensacola Springfield Museums, Springfield California Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito Science and Discovery Center of NW Florida, Panama City Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Science, Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, Bradenton Michigan Bakersfield South Florida Science Ctr/Aquarium, West Palm Beach Air Zoo, Portage California Science Center, Los Angeles Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland Georgia Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor Children's Creativity Museum, San Fransisco Coco Cola Space Science Center, Columbus Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills Children's Museum La Habra, La Habra Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta Flint Children's Museum, Flint Columbia Memorial Space Center, Downey Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids CuriOdyssey, San Mateo Impression 5 Science Center, Lansing Discovery Cube, Santa Ana Idaho Kingman Museum, Battle Creek Exploratorium, San Francisco Discovery Center of Idaho, Boise Michigan Science Center, Detroit Explorit Science Center, Davis Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello Sloan*Longway, Flint Gateway Science Museum, Chico Univ. of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor Humboldt State Univ. Natural History Museum, Arcata Illinois USS Silversides Submarine Museum, Muskegon Kidspace Children's Museum, Pasadena Children's Discovery Museum, Normal Yankee Air Museum, Belleville Kern County Museum, Bakersfield Children's Museum of Illinois, Decatur The Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley Discovery Center Museum, Rockford Minnesota Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton Kidzeum of Health and Science, Springfield The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis Lindsay Wildlife Experience, Walnut Creek Peoria PlayHouse Children's Museum, Peoria Bell Museum, Minneapolis MOXI The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria Duluth Children's Museum, Duluth Santa Barbara Orpheum Children's Science Museum, Champaign Headwaters Science Center, Bemidji Maturango Museum if the Indian Wells, Ridgecrest The Science Center, Carbondale Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead Natural History Museum of LA County, Los Angeles Lake Superior Zoo, Duluth Placer Nature Center, Auburn Indiana Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul Powerhouse Science Center Discovery Museum Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County, Crawfordsville The Works Museum, Bloomington Campus, Sacramento The DaVinci Pursuit, Indianapolis Fleet Science Center, San Diego Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville Mississippi Sacramento Children's Museum, Rancho Cordova Imagination Station, Lafayette Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Jackson San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Indianapolis Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Minnestrista, Muncie Missouri Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz Muncie Children's Museum, Muncie Bootheel Youth Museum, Malden The Tech Interactive, San Jose Science Central, Fort Wayne Discovery Center of Springfield, Inc., Springfield Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding Terre Haute Children's Museum, Terre Haute Science City at Union Stations, Kansas City Western Science Center, Hemet WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology, Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis World of Wonders Science Museum, Lodi Bloomington Montana Colorado Iowa American Computer & Robotics Museum, Bozeman Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver Family Museum, Bettendorf ExplorationWorks, Helena Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, Boulder Grout Museum District: Bluedorn Science Imaginarium, Montana Natural History Center, Missoula Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fort Collins Waterloo Montana Science Center, Bozeman Powerhouse Science Center, Durango Putnam Museum and Science Center, Davenport Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman Space Foundation Discovery Center, Colorado Springs Science Center of Iowa & Blank IMAX Dome Theater, Des spectrUM Discovery Area, Missoula Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver Moines University of Northern Iowa Museum, Cedar Falls Nebraska Connecticut Edgerton Explorit Center, Aurora Bruce Museum, Greenwich Kansas Hastings Museum, Hastings The Children's Museum, West Hartford Cosmosphere, Hutchinson Omaha Children's Museum, Omaha Discovery Museum and Planetarium, Bridgeport Exploration Place, Sedgwick County Science & Discovery University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln Lutz Children's Museum, Manchester Ctr., Wichita New Britain Youth Museum, New Britain Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan Stepping Stones Museum for Children, Norwalk Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence List valid: November 1, 2019 – April 30, 2020 Nevada Oklahoma Virginia Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, Reno Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Children's Museum of Virginia, Portsmouth Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas Tulsa Children's Museum Discovery Lab, Tulsa Children's Science Center, Fairfax Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, Reno Nauticus, Norfolk Oregon Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond New Hampshire Gilbert House Children's Museum (A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, Winchester The Children's Museum of New Hampshire, Dover Village), Salem Science Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke McAuliffe - Shepard Discovery Center, Concord Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton Mount Washington Observatory, North Conway Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland Virginia Discovery Museum, Charlottesville SEE Science Center, Manchester Eugene Science Center, Eugene Virginia Living Museum, Newport News ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum, Ashland Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville New Jersey Sunriver Nature Center, Sunriver Liberty Science Center, Jersey City University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural Washington Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, Everett New Jersey State Museum, Trenton History, Eugene Imagine Children's Museum, Everett KidsQuest Children's Museum, Bellevue New Mexico Pennsylvania Mobius Science Center, Spokane Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos Academy
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