Bank of America Museums on Us

Bank of America offers eligible cardholders free general admission to participating cultural institutions during the first full weekend (Saturday-Sunday) of every month. Present an active, eligible card plus valid photo ID at a participating institution's admission desk; some partners have adjusted admission procedures (checkable via the partner's entry on BofA's Museums on Us map). Bank of America, Merrill, or Bank of America Private Bank (formerly U.S. Trust) credit or debit cardholders. Physical or electronic/digital versions of an eligible card are accepted (i.e., a digital wallet card display is acceptable). Verified on Bank of America's own program page, checked 2026-09-04. FreeMuseumDay is not affiliated with Bank of America.

2026 program weekends

• Saturday, Sep 5, 2026 – Sunday, Sep 6, 2026 (confirmed by Bank of America)
• Saturday, Oct 3, 2026 – Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 (computed from the first-full-weekend rule)
• Saturday, Nov 7, 2026 – Sunday, Nov 8, 2026 (computed from the first-full-weekend rule)
• Saturday, Dec 5, 2026 – Sunday, Dec 6, 2026 (computed from the first-full-weekend rule)

The rules that trip people up

• Valid government-issued photo ID is required along with the active card.
• Offer is for one general admission only, limited to the individual cardholder (not stated to extend to guests) — not transferable.
• Does not guarantee admission and cannot be combined with other offers.
• Some institutions participate only certain months of the year, or only on one day of the weekend (e.g., Sunday only) — verify the specific partner's terms via BofA's Museums on Us map before visiting.
• One free general admission per cardholder per participating institution during the eligible weekend (not an explicit 'one museum per day' cap stated on the official pages found, but the offer is described per-institution/per-cardholder).
• Special exhibitions, ticketed exhibitions, enhanced experiences, and additional offerings are excluded and must be purchased separately. Fundraising events are excluded.

Participant list and terms: Bank of America's official page (Per Bank of America's official June 24, 2026 press release (tied to the 'America250' expansion): 'Museums on Us will expand to 250 nonprofit cultural sites across 43 states and 158 cities' (framed around July 4th weekend 2026). BofA's own ongoing partner-list and map pages (checked Sept 2026) do not restate a separate running total distinct from this figure, so 250/43 states/158 cities is the most current official count found; some third-party guides still cite 'more than 200' as a looser/older figure.).

Participants we also track free days for

High Museum of Art (Atlanta) · Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston) · Adler Planetarium (Chicago) · Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago) · Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) · Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago) · Denver Art Museum (Denver) · Denver Botanic Gardens (Denver) · Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Denver) · Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston) · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston) · Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Los Angeles) · Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia) · Heard Museum (Phoenix) · Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix) · Portland Art Museum (Portland) · de Young Museum (San Francisco) · Legion of Honor (San Francisco) · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (San Francisco) · Seattle Art Museum (SAM) (Seattle) · The Museum of Flight (Seattle)

These institutions have their own free days too — a Museums on Us weekend is one more way in, not the only one.

Notable participants by metro

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Adler Planetarium, Museum of Science and Industry (Griffin MSI), Illinois Holocaust Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Morton Arboretum

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fifth Avenue & The Cloisters), Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York Botanical Garden, The Jewish Museum

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Autry Museum of the American West, Skirball Cultural Center

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Legion of Honor, de Young Museum

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston

Washington DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rubell Museum DC, The Phillips Collection, National Archives

Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Flight, Wing Luke Museum

Dallas: Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science

Atlanta: High Museum of Art, National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Denver: Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver Botanic Gardens

Phoenix: Heard Museum, Phoenix Art Museum

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, Museum of the American Revolution

Minneapolis: Mill City Museum

St. Louis: St. Louis Holocaust Museum

Detroit: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Michigan Science Center

Cleveland: Great Lakes Science Center

San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art

Portland: Portland Art Museum, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), Portland Japanese Garden

Kansas City: National WWI Museum and Memorial, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Science City

Weekend dates for Oct/Nov/Dec 2026 are computed from the verified 'first full weekend of every month' rule (first Saturday-Sunday pair fully contained in the month), cross-checked against the observed pattern of confirmed 2026 weekends (Aug 1-2, Sep 5-6) and independent third-party trackers that use the same rule. September 5-6, 2026 was explicitly surfaced as the 'next eligible weekend' on BofA's own live partner-list page at time of check.,The San Diego, Portland, and Kansas City institution lists were corroborated via participating institutions' own event listings/local press rather than a direct successful scrape of those specific rows on BofA's list page (the fetch tool summarizes long official pages and may not have surfaced every city); treat those three metros' entries as high-confidence but not a verbatim official-page quote, unlike the other 17 metros which came directly off BofA's museums-on-us-partners page content.,The 250-institution/43-state/158-city figure comes from BofA's own June 24, 2026 newsroom press release specifically framed around the July 4, 2026 'America250' weekend; BofA's ongoing partner/map pages checked in September 2026 do not separately restate a total, so it is reported as the most recent official figure with that caveat. The full, current list lives on Bank of America's page — participants change; confirm before you go.

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