Mark your calendars to enjoy Free Museum Day in Wichita again this year, compliments of Smithsonian magazine.
You and one other person in your family can get FREE admission to participating area museums on Saturday, September 21, 2019, when you request your free tickets at the Smithsonian website.
Related: Discounted and Free Museum Days in Wichita
This is one of my favorite events of the year and – fun fact – my first post ever here at Wichita on the Cheap was about Smithsonian Magazine’s Free Museum Day back in September 2009. (That’s 10 years ago!)
Smithsonian Magazine has continued this annual event, and every year I try to use my free tickets to visit a museum I haven’t been to before or haven’t visited for a long time. My first-ever visit to Cowtown was on Free Museum Day one year.
Kansas has quite a few participating museums each year, and some of them not cheap if you’re buying tickets for a large family. Others are already pretty affordable, but with two free tickets for your family it’s even better!
Although admission is FREE, you DO need a ticket. There’s a limit of one ticket per household – each ticket is valid for up to two people.
Related: Free Museum Days and Museum Discounts in Wichita
Your biggest problem will be choosing which museum to visit, since so many of them in our area participate each year.
And if you’re going out of town – or even out of the state – that weekend, find a museum to visit for FREE during your trip.
Museum Day is a national promotion, so there are participating museums throughout the United States.
Participating Museums in Kansas
These are the Wichita-area museums we know are participating for 2019; more may be added as we get closer to the event. They’re all great. Please note: you must have tickets to get free admission on Museum Day.
- Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson
- Museum of World Treasures in Wichita
- Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in Wichita
- Kauffman Museum in Newton
- Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita (always free)
Print your Free Museum Ticket For Two
Other Kansas museums participate in Free Museum Day. Here are the ones we know of for this year, although again – more may be added as we approach Free Museum Day.
Abilene
- Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home
Baldwin City
- Quayle Bible Collection (free every day)
Bonner Springs
- National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame (always free)
Marysville
- Historic Courthouse Museum of Marysville, Kansas
Tickets are available now!
Greetings Carolyn!
I appreciate you and all you do all of the information with this email every week!!!!
Thank you bunches and take care!
Holly. 😉
Holly, thanks so much for taking the time to say this! I appreciate you too!!