Museum Passes & More

Museum Adventure Pass
American Writers Museum
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County
Bronzeville Children's Museum
Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Society)
Cantigny Park
Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College
Chicago Botanic Garden
Children's Museum in Oak Lawn
Elgin History Museum
Elgin Public Museum
Ellwood House Museum
Geneva Lake Museum
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Illinois Railway Museum
Institute for Study of Ancient Cultures
KidsWork Children's Museum
Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Naper Settlement
Pleasant Home Foundation
St. Charles Heritage Museum
Volo Museum

Explore More Illinois
Explore More Illinois is a cultural pass program that provides discounts and other offerings from museums, historical societies, performing and visual arts centers, and other attractions across the state of Illinois. The program is free for adults 18 years and older who have a library card from a participating library. Offerings differ by attraction and include free or reduced admission, free parking, discounts at attraction shops and more.
Explore More Illinois is available 24/7 from any computer, tablet or smartphone. Visit the Explore More Illinois login page and type in your library card number and pin to see offers at attractions around the state.

Participating Attractions (as of October 10, 2023)
- 40th Chicago International Children's Film Festival / Chicago
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum / Springfield
- American Writers Museum / Chicago
- Anderson Japanese Gardens / Rockford
- Annoyance Theatre / Chicago
- Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago
- Bix Beiderbeck Museum & Archive / Davenport, IA
- Bistro Verde / Springfield
- Bronzeville Children's Museum / Chicago
- Brookfield Zoo / Brookfield
- Buffalo Grove Park District Community Arts Center / Buffalo Grove
- Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House / Moline
- Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum / Chicago
- Chicago Botanic Garden / Glencoe
- Chicago Children's Museum / Chicago
- Chicago History Museum / Chicago
- Chicago Maritime Museum / Chicago
- Chicago Red Stars / Bridgeview
- Children's Discovery Museum / Normal
- Civil War Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Community Players / Bloomington, IL
- Dillon Home Museum / Sterling
- Dinosaur Discovery Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Discovery Center Museum / Rockford
- DuPage Children's Museum / Naperville
- The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center / Chicago
- Edwards Place / Springfield
- Ellwood House / Dekalb
- Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park / Oak Park
- Exploration Station...a children's museum / Bourbonnais
- Field Museum / Chicago
- Fox River Grove Memorial Public Library / Fox River Grove
- German American Heritage Center & Museum / Davenport, IA
- Governor John Wood Mansion from the Historical Society of Quincy & Adams County / Quincy
- Haitian American Museum of Chicago / Chicago
- Hegeler Carus Mansion / LaSalle
- Illinois Holocaust Museum / Skokie
- The Insect Asylum / Chicago
- Kankakee County Museum / Kankakee
- Kenosha Public Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Kidzeum of Health and Science / Springfield
- Lansing Historical Society Museum / Lansing
- Lincoln Heritage Museum / Lincoln
- Lincoln Land Community College Athletics / Springfield
- Lincoln Park Zoo / Chicago
- Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art / Oak Brook
- Love's Sweet Arrow / Tinley Park
- Lyric Opera of Chicago / Chicago
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art / Evanston
- McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum / Chicago
- Metropolis Performing Arts Center / Arlington Heights
- Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College / Chicago
- Museum of Science and Industry / Chicago
- Museum of the Grand Prairie / Mahomet
- National Museum of Mexican Art / Chicago
- National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture / Chicago
- Newberry Library / Chicago
- Normal Theater / Normal
- North Suburban Library District / Loves Park and Roscoe
- Peoria Riverfront Museum / Peoria
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library / Chicago
- Raupp Museum / Buffalo Grove
- Rockford Art Museum / Rockford
- Rockford Symphony Youth Orchestra / Rockford
- Soulside Healing Arts / Peoria
- Springfield Art Association / Springfield
- Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum & Gardens / Rockford
- Vermilion County Museum / Danville
- Wheels O' Time / Dunlap