This summer, Cosmosphere to offer free admission to military and families
Special to The News
The Cosmosphere will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families, this summer.
The 2021 program will begin on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 15, and end on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6.
Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and participating museums nationwide.
“The Cosmosphere is proud to partner with our fellow museums and the National Endowment for the Arts in honoring the men and women who serve our country,” said Mimi Meredith, Cosmosphere Sr. VP of Communication and Chief Development Officer. “It is a small way to give back to them and their families.”
Military families play for free all summer at Children’s Museum
Fosters Daily Democrat
DOVER – Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 15 will be the start of the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire’s Military Appreciation Summer, during which all current and retired military personnel and their immediate family members are invited to play at no cost. From this Saturday through Sunday, Sept. 5, guests can simply show a military ID at the front desk of the museum to receive free admission for the military member, dependent children and spouse.
The museum’s Military Appreciation Program is made possible by Service Credit Union and is part of the larger nationwide Blue Star Museum program. The Blue Star Museum program is a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. More than 2,000 museums across America offer free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel, including National Guard and Reserve an
AUBURN â The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, which provides free admission to currently serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer.
The 2021 program will begin on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 15, and end on Labor Day, Sept. 6. A list of participating museums is online at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.
Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and participating museums nationwide.
âLike the resilience that military families demonstrate time and again, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is an example of resiliency in the arts sector over the past year,â said Ann Eilers, acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. âWe are grateful to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum for their leadership in strengthening community through their participation
‘Mastodons of Orange County’ virtual program
Times Herald-Record
GRAHAMSVILLE - Join the Time and the Valleys Museum for an on-line virtual program: “Mastodons of Orange County” on April 11 at 2 p.m.
A large, extinct, elephant-like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, more than eighty mastodon remains have been recovered in New York State. Several mastodons have been recovered in the Orange County area, the first in 1811 by American painter, soldier, scientist and naturalist Charles Willson Peale in Montgomery, Orange County.
Speaker Gary Keeton has participated in several exhumations of New York state mastodons in the local area. Join Gary to learn about the modern recovery of these creatures that roamed the area more than 10,000 years ago.