The Marin County Free Library now offers two types of free & discounted museum passes:

• Discover & Go is a new museum pass program that allows our library users to make reservations online to numerous museums and cultural institutions throughout the Bay Area. Read more details about Discover & Go below.
   
• We also offer passes to the popular Bay Area Discovery Museum for checkout from the library. Click here for details.

Discover & Go provides our library cardholders with free or discounted passes to local museums and other cultural institutions. Make reservations online and print passes at home or at the library. Each Discover & Go pass expires immediately after the reservation date.

Click here to log in & print a pass

Report a problem with Discover & Go

Guidelines

• To make a reservation, you must be 16 years of age or older, a resident of Marin County, and have a valid library card from Marin County Free Library or other MARINet Member Library.
• You can have up to 2 reservations at a time.
• You can cancel a reservation only if you have not already printed the admission pass.
• The pass is for use only by the person named and only on the date specified. No photocopies are allowed. Valid ID is required.
• The number of persons admitted per pass and any other restrictions varies by venue. See the venue's information page for details once you have logged in to Discover & Go.
   

* See special note about Exploratorium passes below.
 

Participating Venues & Offers

Click here to see a current list of participating venues and offer details.

Learn more about the venues by visiting their websites:

• Aquarium of the Bay
• Asian Art Museum
• Bay Area Discovery Museum
• Bay Model Visitor Center
• The Beat Museum
• Bedford Gallery
• California Historical Society
• Cartoon Art Museum
• Charles M. Schulz Museum
• Children's Creativity Museum
• The Contemporary Jewish Museum
• CuriOdyssey
• Exploratorium   (*See special note about Exporatorium passes below)
• GLBT History Museum
• Golden State Model Railroad Museum
• The Lace Museum
• The Lawrence Hall of Science
• Lindsay Wildlife Museum
• The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
• The Marine Mammal Center
• Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
• Napa Valley Museum
• Oakland Aviation Museum
• Oakland Museum of California
• Pacific Pinball Museum
• Palo Alto Art Center
• Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
• Richmond Museum of History
• Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• San Jose Museum of Art
• Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
• SS Red Oak Victory
• Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum
• The Tech Museum of Innovation
• UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
• UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
• USS Hornet Museum
• Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

* Special note about Exporatorium passes:

• Exploratorium passes are no longer available through Discover & Go. The museum may resume offering free passes in the fall, but no exact date has been set.  Please continue to check back for updates.
• The Exploratorium has reopened in its new location on Pier 15 in San Francisco.

Thanks to the generosity of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, the Marin County Free Library has free passes to the Museum available for checkout by our library cardholders.

Click here to reserve a pass

or call one of our library branches.
 

Guidelines

• Each pass admits 6 people
• Pass can be checked out for 1 week

About the Bay Area Discovery Museum

Click here to visit the Museum's website

The Bay Area Discovery Museum is a one-of-a-kind indoor and outdoor children's museum at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, serving over 300,000 visitors per year on its 7.5 acre Sausalito campus. The Museum is the only children’s museum in the U.S. to be located in a national park, and its exhibits are admired and emulated by other children’s museums nationwide. The Museum is recognized as the leading children’s museum dedicated to nurturing childhood creativity, fostering future generations of creative thinkers and innovators. With this emphasis on creativity through play, the Museum encourages children ages 6 months to 8 years to develop into curious, creative, adventurous lifelong learners and explorers.

The Museum's unique programs feature hands-on art, science and environmental exhibitions, performances, special events, cultural festivals and ongoing educational curricula... all with a focus on fun!