COVID-xix Update

Due to the recent surge in COVID-nineteen cases in Arizona, performance passes are on hold until further notice. The arts and cultural venue portion of the program is still bachelor in libraries. Please check with all venues for reservation requirements, timed ticketing, and COVID policies before visiting.

Human action One's Culture Pass provides access to the arts for students, retirees, and families that would not otherwise have the fiscal capabilities to visit Arizona's arts and cultural treasures. Act One works with over 80 libraries statewide to permit library cardholders the opportunity to check out free passes to the many venues that partner with us. Over 800,000 passes are offered annually. Visit your local library to cheque out a laissez passer today!

How Do I Become Started?

To get started you lot must take a library card to one of our participating libraries. Visit your local library to check out what passes are available.

What if I don't have a library carte?

To qualify for a free public library card in Arizona, you must exist a resident of one of the cities or areas listed below or attend university in Arizona. Visit your local library to sign upwards.

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Cave Creek Museum

The Cavern Creek Museum is located in Cave Creek, Arizona, and works to preserve the artifacts of the prehistory, history, culture and legacy of the Cave Creek Mining Commune and the Cave Creek/Carefree foothills area through instruction, inquiry, and interpretive exhibits. The Cave Creek Museum is open October through May annually.

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Desert Botanical Garden

Desert Botanical Garden is here to help yous savour the dazzler of the desert and intendance almost it. With over 140 acres of garden, 55 of them nether cultivation and more than than 50,000 plant displays showcased in outdoor exhibits, the Desert Botanical Garden is one of simply 24 botanical gardens accredited past the American Alliance of Museums.

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Heard Museum

Since its founding in 1929, the Heard Museum has grown in size and stature to get recognized internationally for the quality of its collections, world-class exhibitions, educational programming and its unmatched festivals. Dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art, the Heard successfully presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitions that showcase the beauty and vitality of traditional and contemporary art. The Heard Museum sets the standard for collaborating with American Indian artists and tribal communities to provide visitors with a distinctive perspective nearly the art of Native people, especially those from the Southwest.

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Phoenix Art Museum

Located in the Central Corridor of a bustling, desert metropolis, Phoenix Fine art Museum has opened doors to world-grade exhibitions, its comprehensive collections, and meaningful moments of learning and connexion for sixty years.

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Pueblo Grande Museum

Pueblo Grande Museum opened in 1929 and consists of ii-thirds of a mile of interpretive trail which travels around the remains of the prehistoric Hohokam people's ballcourt and platform. The Museum is run by the City of Phoenix, and Phoenix was the first city in the nation to hire a City Archeologist to aid curate the Musuem and site. Pueblo Grande is Castilian for Large Town and a ppears to have been settled former before A.D. 500 and was abandoned around 1450 for reasons not quite known. For more information regarding admission , visit [ https://pueblogrande.org/ ] .

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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

A museum located in Scottsdale, Arizona, dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and design.

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Superstition Mountain Museum

The Superstition Mountain Historical Society was formed on December 27, 1979. We are a non-profit organisation, organized to collect and preserve the history and legends of Arizona'south Superstition Mountains, and to support inquiry, education and publications involving the region. The Superstition Mountain Museum collects, preserves and displays the artifacts, history and sociology of the Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction and the surrounding region.

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Cavern Creek Museum

Desert Botanical Garden

Heard Museum

Phoenix Art Museum

Pueblo Grande Museum

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Superstition Mountain Museum

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Amerind Museum

A museum, fine art gallery, and research center dedicated to archæology, Native cultures, and Western art. Located in Dragoon, Arizona, and surrounded by the spectacular boulders of Texas Coulee.

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a fusion experience: zoo, botanical garden, fine art gallery & classes, natural history museum, and aquarium.

Please notation: Passes are unavailable for bank check out from November 1 through April 30 annually.

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Reid Park Zoo

Reid Park Zoo's mission is "to create inspiring memories for all by connecting people and animals to ensure the protection of wild animals and wild places." The Zoo features over 300 animals including elephants, lions, anteaters, giraffe, rhino, zebra, squirrel monkeys, meerkats and more than.  There are also play areas for children and carousel & train rides.

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The University of Arizona Museum of Art

Scholarship and public engagement have remained every bit vital parts of The Academy of Arizona Museum of Art'southward mission. Past preserving collections that showcase five centuries of artistic expression from effectually the world, the museum promotes greater appreciation for the inherent value of the visual arts. The museum houses works by renowned artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Beyond the gallery walls: More than than forty public sculptures and integrated artworks speckle the surrounding area, providing small discoveries for visitors willing to explore the campus.

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Tohono Chul

Scholarship and public appointment accept remained equally vital parts of The University of Arizona Museum of Art's mission. Past preserving collections that showcase five centuries of artistic expression from effectually the world, the museum promotes greater appreciation for the inherent value of the visual arts. The museum houses works past renowned artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Beyond the gallery walls: More than than forty public sculptures and integrated artworks speckle the surrounding expanse, providing small discoveries for visitors willing to explore the campus.

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Tucson Botanical Gardens

The Tucson Botanical Gardens connects people with plants and nature through art, science, history and civilisation.

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Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Centre

The Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center features the get-go synagogue congenital in the Arizona Territory (1910) and Arizona's only Holocaust History Eye.  The Holocaust Centre presents the Holocaust through the life experiences of more than 260 Holocaust survivors who both survived Nazi persecution and later lived in Southern Arizona. The center includes a contemporary human rights gallery which hosts almanac rotating exhibitions that highlight nowadays-day human rights violations and bug of social justice.

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Tucson Museum of Art

The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, a regional museum and center for creative inquiry and appreciation, seeks to inspire dynamic human experiences, create a passion for the visual arts and celebrate Southern Arizona's rich and diverse culture.

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Amerind Museum

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Reid Park Zoo

The University of Arizona Museum of Art

Tohono Chul

Tucson Botanical Gardens

Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Middle

Tucson Museum of Fine art

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Arcosanti

In 1970, The Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti, an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona, 70 miles north of metropolitan Phoenix. An ambitious project envisioned as an experiment in living frugally and with a limited ecology footprint, Arcosanti is an attempt at a paradigm arcology, integrating the pattern of architecture with respect to ecology. Based on a fix of four core values that include Frugality and Resourcefulness, Ecological Accountability, Experiential Learning, and Leaving a Limited Footprint. The Cosanti Foundation operates Arcosanti equally a counterpoint to mass consumerism, urban sprawl, unchecked consumption of natural resources, and social isolation. Visitors tin schedule and reserve their spots online at www.arcosanti.org/tours later on they have checked out their Culture Pass.

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Desert Caballeros Western Museum

The Desert Caballeros Western Museum welcomes and enriches various audiences by inspiring an appreciation of the art and history of the American West through artistic exhibitions and educational programs that preserve the Westward'due south cultural legacy.

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Museum of Northern Arizona

The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) is a individual, non-profit, educational institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona at the base of the beautiful San Francisco Peaks. The Museum was founded in 1928 by a group of Flagstaff citizens to protect and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of northern Arizona through research, collections, conservation, and teaching. The Museum has evolved into a regional center of learning with collections, exhibits, educational programs, publications, and research projects that serve thousands of people each year.

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Sedona Heritage Museum

The Sedona Heritage Museum exhibits include local history of pioneers, western film-making in Sedona, cowboy and ranch life, vintage vehicles, orchard and fruit processing equipment, art, and wine-making. Choice up something special in the Souvenir Shop, take photos in the Kids' Korral, or savor an outdoor picnic with beautiful views.

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Sharlot Hall Museum

Sharlot Hall Museum is named later on its founder, Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870-1943), who became well-known as a poet, activist, politician, and Arizona'south first female person Territorial Historian. She was one of the West's near remarkable women. In 1907, she saw the need to relieve Arizona's history and planned to develop a museum and began to collect both indigenous and pioneer artifacts.  In 1927, she began restoring the first Territorial Governor'due south residence and offices and moved her extensive collection of artifacts and documents opening information technology as the "Gubernatorial Mansion Museum" in 1928.  Subsequently her death in 1943, the museum was named in her honor.

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The Arboretum at Flagstaff

The Arboretum at Flagstaff was founded past Frances McAllister in 1981 as a private nonprofit organization under the official proper noun 'The Transition Zone Horticultural Constitute.' While research was the original primary focus, over the years information technology has become known equally a destination for local and out-of-town visitors who desire to learn more about the native plants and animals constitute in northern Arizona, and every bit a wonderful venue for a broad variety of events and educational programs.

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Arcosanti

Desert Caballeros Western Museum

Museum of Northern Arizona

Sedona Heritage Museum

Sharlot Hall Museum

The Arboretum at Flagstaff

Metro Phoenix Area

Arizona State University

Arizona State University offers Culture Passes at four of their libraries: Downtown Campus Library, Polytechnic Campus Library, Hayden Library, and Fletcher Library.

Maricopa Community Colleges

Maricopa Customs Colleges offer Culture Passes at GateWay Community College and Paradise Valley Community College campus libraries.

Tucson Metro Surface area

Pima Community Higher Library

Pima Customs College Library offers Culture Passes at 3 of their libraries: West Campus Library, Desert Vista Campus Library, and Downtown Campus Library.

Pima Canton Library Commune

The Pima County Library District offers Civilisation Passes at eleven of their libraries: Eckstrom-Columbus Library, Himmel Park Library, Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Joyner-Greenish Valley Library, Kirk-Bear Canyon Library, Miller-Golf Links Library, Mission Library, Quincie Douglas Library, Valencia Library, Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library, and Woods Memorial Library.

Northern + Rural Arizona

If you are an arts and culture institution in the state of Arizona and are interested in participating in the Civilisation Pass programme, please email Anne Osborne at aosborne@act1az.org.

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