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MuseumFreeDays.com is a pretty rad website — with an iPhone app! I’m a bit of a museum junkie, so discovering this recently just makes me wish I’d had it for my last decade of traveling. So it goes.

I’ve highlighted some of our favorite USA cities, their free museum day policies, and highlighting a few museums in particular. Be sure to follow them on twitter @museumfreedays.

Atlanta

• Woodruff Arts Center
• High Museum of Art
• Imagine It! Children’s Museum of Atlanta

Click here for this month’s free days in Atlanta.

Boston

• Peabody Museum
• Boston Children’s Museum
• Institute of Contemporary Art
• MIT Museum

Click here for this month’s free days in Boston.

Chicago

• Chicago History Museum
• Chicago Children’s Museum
• Field Museum
• Museum of Contemporary Chicago

Click here for this month’s free days in Chicago.

Dallas

Read about them on Examiner.com.

Houston

• Children’s Museum of Houston

Click here for this month’s free days in Houston.

Los Angeles

• Museum of Contemporary Art (Grand Ave)
• Bowers Museum
• The Page Museum

Click here for the breakdown.

• Miami Art Museum
• Miami Children’s Museum

New York

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Bronx Zoo
• Guggenheim
• Museum of Modern Art
• Whitney Museum of American Art

Click here for this month’s free days in NY. 

Philadelphia

• Please Touch Museum
• The Franklin Institute

Click here for this month’s free days in Philly.

Portland

Here’s the breakdown of museums that are free and what times of years the others are free.

San Francisco

• Bay Area Discovery Museum
• Exploratorium
• Asian Art Museum

Many museums in San Francisco offer at least one free day per month, and some discounted days or evenings. Click here for this month’s free days in SF.

• Burke Museum
• Wing Luke Museum

Washington D.C.

September 24 is the Smithsonian’s Museum Day where every participating museum is free for the day (and this is happens at museums well beyond the District of Columbia! Most of the museums in D.C. are already free, though. Here’s a list.

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