Museum & Park Passes FAQs

  • General Questions

    You can get free or discounted museum passes with your library card!

    We have 2 types of museum passes:

    • Discover & Go – free & discounted passes to many different museums and cultural institutions, that you reserve online and print from home.
    • Bay Area Discovery Museum – physical passes for free admission to the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, that you reserve and pick up from the library.

    For more details, please see Museum Passes.

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    Enjoy your visit to local parks with a hiking backpack from the library. Backpacks check out for one week and can be renewed.

    You can check out a backpack from any of our branches. They're not holdable, but you can check current availability in the library catalog:
    California State Library Parks Pass Backpack.

    Backpacks must be returned to the library where they were checked out.

    Each backpack includes:

    • Binoculars
    • Hiking poles
    • CA State park pass
    • Pocket guide: CA Wildlife
    • Pocket guide: CA Trees & Flowers
    • Microscope
    • Flashlight
    • Horn
    • Compass
    • 3 dry bags

    For information on borrowing free parking passes for local parks, please see Park Passes page.