Visit Connecticut’s great museums and zoos!
Take advantage of Scranton Library’s collection of museum passes for free or discounted admission.
Please call or visit the museum website to verify open hours and ticket purchasing procedures before planning your trip.
Click here to reserve a pass
Passes are available for the following attractions:
- Children’s Museum (West Hartford, CT) and Roaring Brook Nature Center (Canton, CT)
- Connecticut DEEP State Parks and Forests (statewide)
- Connecticut River Museum – Essex, CT
- Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo – Bridgeport, CT
- Connecticut’s Old State House – Hartford, CT
- Discovery Museum of Bridgeport – Bridgeport, CT
- Florence Griswold Museum – Old Lyme, CT
- Lyman Allyn Art Museum – New London, CT
- Mark Twain House and Museum – Hartford, CT
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum – Ledyard, CT
- Mystic Seaport Museum – Mystic, CT
- New Britain Museum of American Art – New Britain, CT
- New England Air Museum – Windsor Locks, CT
- Niantic Children’s Museum – Niantic, CT
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art – Hartford, CT
The library also has coupons for discounts at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford. Ask at the Borrowing Desk.
Free Connecticut Museums
Admission is free at these locations. No pass is required.
Ballard Institute and Museum– Storrs, CT
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library– New Haven, CT
Connecticut College Arboretum– New London, CT
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History– Storrs, CT
Davison Art Center– Middletown, CT
Ely Center of Contemporary Art– New Haven, CT
Flanders Nature Center– Woodbury, CT
Fort Griswold Battlefield– Groton, CT
Museum of Connecticut History– Hartford, CT
National Helicopter Museum– Stratford, CT
New England Civil War Museum– Vernon, CT
Submarine Force Library & Museum Association– Groton, CT
Weir Farm & Burlingham House Visitor Center– Wilton, CT
White Memorial Conservation Center– Litchfield, CT
William Benton Museum of Art– Storrs, CT
Yale Center for British Art– New Haven, CT
Yale University Art Gallery– New Haven, CT