Bank Of America Free Museum Dates

One of the most underrated perks out there comes via Bank of America (BOA). Yes, you heard that right, not Chase, Amex or Citi but Bank of America offers a sneaky good card perk. That perk is the Bank of America Museums on Us program. This is a program that has been around several years and gives BOA customers free tickets to select museums. In this article I will go over Bank Of America free museum dates, participating locations and all of the Museums on Us details you need to know.

Update 11/2/24: This weekend is another free museum weekend for Bank of America cardholders.

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How Does Museums On Us Work?

You may be thinking, I can free museum tickets? Sign me up! I am right there with you. This is a perk offered to Bank of America, Merrill or Bank of America Private Bank (U.S. Trust) credit card or debit card holders. Yes, a checking account debit card will snag you free access too! Bank of America has worked out a deal with certain museums around the country that give you free access on the first weekend of every month. Remember that only the cardholder gets a free ticket though. However, if each person is your party has a Bank of America card then you can each get a free ticket.

What do you have to do to get this free ticket? You only need to show one of the cards listed above at the ticket desk at one of the museums that participate in the program. Once they see a card with your name on it they will hand over your free ticket. It is really that simple.

What Are The Bank Of America Free Museum Dates?

Here are the list of dates for the Bank of America Museums on Us program in 2024:

• January 6-7
• February 3-4
• March 2-3
• April 6-7
• May 4-5
• June 1-2
• July 6-7
• August 3-4
• September 7-8
• October 5-6
• November 2-3
• December 7-8

Which Museums Participate In Museums on Us & Give Free Tickets?

Here is a list of all of the Bank of America Museums on Us participants by state or you can search via map here:

Alaska

• Anchorage
  • Anchorage Museum

Arizona

• Phoenix
  • Heard Museum
  • Phoenix Art Museum
• Scottsdale
  • Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West
• Tucson
  • Pima Air and Space Museum
  • Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block

Arkansas

• Little Rock
  • Clinton Presidential Center
  • Museum of Discovery

California

• Bakersfield
  • Bakersfield Museum of Art (Saturdays only)
  • California Living Museum
• Fresno
  • Arte Américas
  • Fresno Art Museum
• La Jolla
  • Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
• Laguna Beach
  • Laguna Art Museum
• Long Beach
  • Museum of Latin American Art (Saturdays only)
• Los Angeles
  • Autry Museum of the American West
  • LACMA
  • Skirball Cultural Center
• Mountain View
  • Computer History Museum
• Oakland
  • Oakland Museum of California
• Palm Springs
  • Palm Springs Art Museum
• Redlands
  • San Bernardino County Museum
• Riverside
  • Riverside Art Museum
• Sacramento
  • Crocker Art Museum
  • The California Museum
• Salinas
  • National Steinbeck Center
• San Diego
  • Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA)
  • The San Diego Museum of Art
• San Francisco
  • Contemporary Jewish Museum
  • Legion of Honor
  • de Young Museum
• San Jose
  • San José Museum of Art
  • The Tech Interactive
• Santa Ana
  • Discover Science Center, DiscoverCube OC (Sundays only)
• Santa Barbara
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  • MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation
• Stockton
  • Haggin Museum
• Yountville
  • Napa Valley Museum Yountville

Colorado

• Denver
  • Denver Art Museum
  • Denver Botanic Gardens
  • Denver Museum of Nature & Science
  • History Colorado
  • Museo de las Americas (Saturdays only)
• Littleton
  • Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield Farms

Connecticut

• Fairfield
  • Fairfield Museum and History Center
• Greenwich
  • Bruce Museum
• Hartford
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
• New Britain
  • New Britain Museum of American Art
• Ridgefield
  • Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
• Waterbury
  • Mattatuck Museum
• Westport
  • MoCA Westport

Delaware

• Wilmington
  • Delaware Art Museum (Saturdays only)
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science

Florida

• Bradenton
  • The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature
• Daytona Beach
  • Museum of Arts and Sciences
• Fort Lauderdale
  • Museum of Discovery & Science
  • NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
• Islamorada
  • History of Diving Museum
• Jacksonville
  • Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
  • The Museum of Science and History (MOSH)
• Jensen Beach
  • The Children's Museum of the Treasure Coast
• Miami
  • HistoryMiami Museum
  • Miami Children's Museum
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
  • Pérez Art Museum Miami
• Miami Beach
  • The Bass
• Naples
  • Naples Botanical Garden
  • The Baker Museum / Artis Naples
• Orlando
  • Orange County Regional History Center
  • Orlando Museum of Art
  • Orlando Science Center
  • The Mennello Museum of American Art
• Sarasota
  • Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
• St. Petersburg
  • Florida Holocaust Museum
  • Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
• Tallahassee
  • Tallahassee Museum
• Tampa
  • Tampa Museum of Art
• Vero Beach
  • Vero Beach Museum of Art
• West Palm Beach
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium
  • Norton Museum of Art
• Winter Park
  • Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Garden

Georgia

• Atlanta
  • Atlanta History Center
  • Center for Civil and Human Rights
  • High Museum of Art
• Augusta
  • Morris Museum of Art
• Cartersville
  • Tellus Science Museum
• Savannah
  • Georgia State Railroad Museum
  • Harper Fowlkes House
  • Old Fort Jackson
  • Pin Point Heritage Museum
  • SCAD Museum of Art
  • Savannah Children's Museum (Saturdays only)
  • Savannah History Museum

Idaho

• Boise
  • Boise Art Museum

Illinois

• Chicago
  • Adler Planetarium
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Chicago History Museum
  • DuSable Museum of African American History
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
• Lisle
  • The Morton Arboretum
• Skokie
  • Illinois Holocaust Museum & Educational Center

Indiana

• Fishers
  • Conner Prairie Museum
• Indianapolis
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Iowa

• Davenport
  • Figge Art Museum
• Des Moines
  • Science Center of Iowa

Kansas

• Wichita
  • Botanica Wichita
  • Kansas African American Museum (Saturday only)
  • Kansas Aviation Museum

Louisiana

• New Orleans
  • The National WWII Museum

Maine

• Portland
  • Portland Museum of Art
• Rockland
  • Farnsworth Art Museum

Maryland

• Baltimore
  • Maryland Science Center
  • Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture

Massachusetts

• Boston
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art
• Concord
  • Orchard House
• Fitchburg
  • Fitchburg Art Museum
• Hyannis
  • John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum (Saturdays only)
• Lenox
  • The Mount
• New Bedford
  • New Bedford Whaling Museum
• Salem
  • Peabody Essex Museum
• Springfield
  • Springfield Museums
• Worcester
  • EcoTarium

Michigan

• Dearborn
  • Arab American National Museum
  • Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
• Detroit
  • Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
  • Michigan Science Center
  • Motown Museum (subject to availability)
• Flint
  • Flint Institute of Arts

Minnesota

• Comfrey
  • Jeffers Petroglyphs (Seasonal)
• Elk River
  • Oliver Kelley Farm (Seasonal)
• Minneapolis
  • Mill City Museum
• Saint Paul
  • Historic Fort Snelling
• St. Paul
  • James J. Hill House (Seasonal)
  • Minnesota History Center
• Two Harbors
  • Split Rock Lighthouse (Seasonal)

Missouri

• Kansas City
  • National World War I Museum and Memorial
  • Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
  • Science City at Union Station Kansas City
• St. Louis
  • The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum

Nevada

• Las Vegas
  • Las Vegas Natural History Museum
  • Springs Preserve
• Reno
  • Nevada Museum of Art

New Hampshire

• Manchester
  • Currier Museum of Art

New Jersey

• Clinton
  • Hunterdon Art Museum
• Jersey City
  • Liberty Science Center
• Millville
  • Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
• Montclair
  • Montclair Art Museum
• Morristown
  • Morris Museum
• Newark
  • Newark Museum Art

New Mexico

• Albuquerque
  • Albuquerque Museum
  • National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
• Santa Fe
  • Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

New York

• Albany
  • Albany Institute of History & Art
• Brooklyn
  • Brooklyn Museum
• Buffalo
  • Buffalo AKG Art Museum
  • Buffalo Museum of Science
• Garden City
  • Long Island Children's Museum
• Kingston
  • Hudson River Maritime Museum
• New York
  • El Museo del Barrio
  • Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
  • Staten Island Zoological Society
  • The Jewish Museum
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The Met Cloisters
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The Met Fifth Avenue
  • The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• Niagara Falls
  • Aquarium of Niagara
• Rochester
  • Rochester Museum & Science Center
• Roslyn Harbor
  • Nassau County Museum of Art
• Syracuse
  • Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (MOST)
• Water Mill
  • Parrish Art Museum
• Yonkers
  • Hudson River Museum

North Carolina

• Asheville
  • Asheville Museum of Science
• Charlotte
  • Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
  • Charlotte Museum of History
  • Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
  • Mint Museum Randolph
  • Mint Museum Uptown
• Greensboro
  • Greensboro Children's Museum
• Raleigh
  • Marbles Kids Museum
• Wilmington
  • Cameron Art Museum
• Winston-Salem
  • Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Ohio

• Cleveland
  • Great Lakes Science Center
• Columbus
  • National Veterans Memorial and Museum
  • Columbus Museum of Art (Saturdays only)

Oklahoma

• Bartlesville
  • Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve
• Oklahoma City
  • First Americans Museum
  • National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
  • Oklahoma City Museum of Art
  • Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
• Tulsa
  • Greenwood Rising
  • Philbrook Museum of Art

Oregon

• Eugene
  • Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
• Portland
  • Oregon Museum of Science & Industry
  • Portland Art Museum
  • Portland Japanese Garden

Pennsylvania

• Chadds Ford
  • Brandywine River Museum of Art
• Doylestown
  • James A. Michener Art Museum
• Philadelphia
  • African American Museum in Philadelphia
  • Museum of the American Revolution
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Pittsburgh
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • The Andy Warhol Museum

Rhode Island

• Newport
  • International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Providence
  • Providence Children's Museum
  • RISD Museum

South Carolina

• Charleston
  • Gibbes Museum of Art
  • International African American Museum
• Columbia
  • Columbia Museum of Art
• Greenville
  • The Children's Museum of the Upstate (Greenville)
  • Upcountry History Museum

Tennessee

• Knoxville
  • Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (Saturdays only)
  • Zoo Knoxville
• Memphis
  • National Civil Rights Museum (Sundays only)
• Nashville
  • Frist Art Museum

Texas

• Austin
  • Bullock Texas State History Museum
  • The Contemporary Austin (Laguna Gloria)
  • The Contemporary Austin (The Jones Center
  • The Thinkery (at the Meredith Learning Lab)
• Canyon
  • Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (September through May: Saturdays only)
• Dallas
  • Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
• El Paso
  • Magoffin Home Historic Site
• Fort Worth
  • Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Houston
  • Houston Museum of Natural Science
  • The Children's Museum of Houston
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• San Antonio
  • Briscoe Western Art Museum
  • McNay Art Museum
  • San Antonio Museum of Art
  • The DoSeum: San Antonio's Museum for Kids
  • Witte Museum

Utah

• Salt Lake City
  • Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia

• Charlottesville
  • Virginia Discovery Museum (Saturdays only)
• Portsmouth
  • Children's Museum of Virginia
• Richmond
  • Children’s Museum of Richmond

Washington

• Bellevue
  • Bellevue Arts Museum
• Seattle
  • Northwest African American Museum
  • Seattle Art Museum
  • Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
• Spokane
  • Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
• Tacoma
  • Tacoma Art Museum

Washington, DC

• Washington, DC
  • Rubell Museum DC
  • The Phillips Collection

Wisconsin

• Milwaukee
  • Milwaukee Art Museum

My Favorite Museum On The List & Others I Want To Check Out

My favorite museum on the list is The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. It is probably my favorite museum anywhere honestly. The museum has a lot more than just cars. There are airplanes, the Rosa Parks bus (who they outbid the Smithsonian for and they let you actually sit on it while they tell her story), the chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in and so much more. It is also attached to Greenfield Village, which has a bunch of historical houses etc. they brought in and feels like a small city, but that isn't a part of the program unfortunately.

Some other museums from the list I would love to check out while traveling are the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburg, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and MET in New York City and the Anchorage museum. We had tried to check it out on our trip to Alaska a few years ago but it was closed.

Bank of America Museums On Us Free Tickets Dates: ToP Thoughts

I beg of you not to overlook this program if you have a Bank of America or Merrill card (literally any card issued from either). It can offer you free access, or basically half off if you are bringing kids etc. Some of the museums on this list are world class and can cost $25-$50 for entry. The Bank of America Museums on Us program flies under the radar and many people don't seem to know about it. Consider yourself lucky that you now know about this awesome free credit / debit card perk.