Free admission to Connecticut museums

The best free ticket in town is now just a click away - starting today, museum-goers can head to smithsonian.com/museumdaylive to download tickets for Smithsonian's Museum Day Live! Tickets grant free admission for two people per household to participating museums on Saturday, September 29, 2012.

Museums across Connecticut including Bruce Museum, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Mattatuck Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will be participating in this eighth annual event celebrating cultural education through the nation's wide array of museums and institutions. For the full list of participating museums, please visit: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/. 

Museum Day Live! will be the eighth annual event celebrating education through the nation's wide array of museums and cultural institutions. For one day only, participating locations across the country will emulate the free admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution's Washington, D.C.-based facilities. The program encourages learning and the dissemination of knowledge nationwide. Last year's event drew over 350,000 museum-goers to over 1,400 museums.
"With September right around the corner, people can start to plan their Museum Day Live! experience now," said Jennifer Hicks, Group Publisher, Smithsonian Media. "Our free online ticketing makes accessing museums and cultural institutions easy for anyone that is interested.  Over 1,400 museums are expected to participate, making this year's event even larger than last year."

For more information, please visit smithsonian.com/museumdaylive.