Museums Offer Free Admission to Military Families This Summer

More than 600 museums nationwide are offering free admission to military families all summer in a new partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

The list includes some of the nation’s premier art museums, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as science centers, children’s museums and other sites in all 50 states.

The free admission program, called Blue Star Museums, is available to active-duty military and their immediate family members (military ID holder and five immediate family members), which includes active duty Reserve and active duty National Guard. 

Blue Star Museums runs from Memorial Day, May 31, 2010 through to Labor Day, September 6, 2010. 

See the full list of participating institutions at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums

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By the way…if you find yourself in Michigan this summer, stop by Park West Gallery—admission to our 23 spacious exhibition galleries is always free!
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Picasso Peace and Freedom at Tate Liverpool

Pablo Picasso’s The Charnel House (1944-45). ©Succession Picasso/DACS 2009. Photo: ©2009 Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art NY/Scala, Florence.

UK—Picasso: Peace and Freedom is currently on view through August 30, 2010 at Tate Liverpool. This major exhibition brings together over 150 works by Pablo Picasso from across the world.

From the museum website:

This exhibition will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist’s life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely held view of Picasso as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.

This is the first exhibition to examine in depth the artist’s engagement with politics and the Peace Movement, and will reflect a new Picasso for a new time. The exhibition provides a timely look at Picasso’s work in the Cold War era and how the artist transcended the ideological and aesthetic oppositions of East and West.

For more information on this exhibit, visit www.tate.org.uk

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