Museum Passes

Available at YPL!

Museum Passes

Celebrate Cape Cod's unique history and become a tourist in your own backyard by visiting one of the local museums or parks!

Donate Funds to Purchase Museum Passes

Donating funds for the library to purchase museum passes is a great way to support the library beyond membership. All passes are available to CLAMS patrons on a first come, first serve basis and can be used any day a museum is open.

Listed to the side is just a sample of some of our museum passes coming up for renewal in the next few months. Please call the library if you are interested in sponsoring a pass.

Please call the library for information.

Thank You!

Heritage Museum & Gardens, Sandwich

• Annual fee $375
• Pass allows 50% off general admission prices for up to six individuals, age 2 and up

Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit

• Annual fee $200
• Pass allows free admission for up to two adults and four children

Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth

• Annual fee $250
• Pass charges $18 per adult and $12 per child up to six guests

The Library has passes for many local attractions.

To discover more information, directions, and hours for the attractions listed below, just click on the link for each one.

Please provide your library card when checking out.

Call the library (508-362-3717) for more information or to reserve a pass.

Passes must be picked up and returned only to YPL during open hours.

Patrons may borrow passes for more than one museum but only one pass per museum per family is allowed.

A cape-wide museum pass brochure is also available at the library.

There are also links below for virtual tours of three museums. And check out the HSOY link below.

New Pass: Battleship Cove: America's Fleet Museum

battleshipcove.org
5 Water Street
Fall River, MA 02721
508-678-1100

The home to five National Historic Landmarks and Official Veteran Memorials on both state and national levels, Battleship Cove has been providing the preservation of both the military heritage of the New England region and that of the United States since 1965.

Passes are for up to two adults and 3 children. Regular admission is $25 for adults and $15 for children. With library pass families will pay $3 for each ticket.
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Massachusetts Parks Pass

mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/
massparks/passes

In addition to passes/coupons for many local attractions, YPL also has passes for the State Parks. One pass gets everyone in your car in free - think Nickerson or Scussett here on the Cape and many other parks around the state.
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Heritage Museums & Gardens

heritagemuseumsand
gardens.org
[email protected]
67 Grove Street
Sandwich, MA 02563
508-888-3300

Within our peaceful confines you’ll find walking trails, outdoor discovery opportunities, gardens that invite lingering, and exhibits to expand your understanding of art and history. Heritage offers up-close experiences that can’t be found anywhere else. It’s a place of joy and fun. It’s a place to make lasting memories.

100 Magnificent Acres, Family Fun, American Automobile Collection, & Museum Exhibits

Each pass allows two adults and four children admission at half-price. Only one pass per family may be checked out at a time.
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USS Constitution Museum

ussconstitutionmuseum.
org
Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 22,
Charlestown, MA 02129
617-426-1812

The USS Constitution Museum serves as the memory and educational voice of USS Constitution, by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the stories of “Old Ironsides” and the people associated with her.

Free admission for parties of eight or less.
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Virtual Visits

Check out the links below for virtual visits!

Cape Cod Maritime Museum

USS Constitution Museum

New England Aquarium

Cahoon Museum of American Art

cahoonmuseum.org
4676 Falmouth Road
Cotuit, MA 02635
508-428-7581

Features fine art, folk art, and American art from the 1800s through the present. Public programs include a series of annual changing exhibitions, tours, artist's talks and workshops, and family activities.

Free admission for 2 visitors per pass.
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Cape Cod Museum of Art

ccmoa.org
60 Hope Lane off of Rt 6A
Dennis, MA 02638
508-385-4477

Founded by artists in 1981, CCMoA is the home of Cape Cod Art. The Museum preserves the work of the Cape’s finest artists and celebrates the distinctive artistic identity of the Cape, the Islands and the region. It is a major hub of the cultural life of the region. Through its outstanding art collection and diverse programming, CCMoA educates, inspires and excites the imagination while caring for and connecting the Cape's many communities.

CCMoA has seven galleries, a museum shop and a film screening room.

Pass entitles bearer to free admission.
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Plimoth Patuxet

plimoth.org
137 Warren Avenue
Plymouth, MA 02360
(508) 746-1622
[email protected]

Plimoth Plantation offers powerful personal encounters with history built on thorough research about the Wampanoag People and the Colonial English community in the 1600s.

The pass allows for up to six people (adults and children) to enjoy the museum at bargain rates, and it does not have to be signed out for a specific day or returned to the YPL. The museum closed December 1, but will reopen in March.
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Whydah Pirate Museum

discoverpirates.com
674 MA-28
West Yarmouth, MA 02673
508-534-9571

Discount passes to the Whydah Pirate Museum are now available. Have you been wanting to check it out? Well, now you can! Come on in with your CLAMS card and check out a pass good for four people to get in to this fascinating new museum at a great discount of $12.00 per person.
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Captain Bangs Hallet House Museum (part of HSOY)

8 Strawberry Lane, Yarmouth Port, MA

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the centerpiece of the Society’s properties, this home is a stately, fully-furnished sea captain's home, circa 1840. It is the only one like it on Cape Cod regularly open to the public, providing a glimpse into how sea captains' families lived and entertained in the Victorian era.

Admits up to 4 at half price. Tours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 1, 2, and 3 PM, late June through mid October.

Cape Cod Maritime Museum

capecodmaritimemuseum.org
135 South Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
508-775-1723

Our mission is to preserve the rich maritime traditions and history for which Cape Cod and the Islands are known. We strive to enable audiences of all ages to understand and enjoy the maritime culture through exhibitions, collections, public events, and educational programs.
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Edward Gorey House

edwardgoreyhouse.org
8 Strawberry Lane
Yarmouth Port, MA 02675
508-362-3909

In 1979 Edward Gorey purchased the 200 year-old sea captain’s home on the Yarmouth Port Common, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. After his death in 2000 the house became a museum, dedicated to Gorey’s life and work and his devotion to animal welfare. The house and its annual Gorey exhibits are open to the public from April through December.

Two adults at half-price.
Regular prices:
   Adults: $8.00
   Students & Seniors (65+):
       $5.00
   Children 6-12 years old:
       $2.00
   Children under 6 are free.
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Toad Hall Classic Car Museum

toadhallcars.com
Located behind Simmons Homestead Inn
288 Scudder Ave
Hyannis Port MA 02647
508-778-4934

A really great collection of over 50 Classic Sports Cars, mostly English with some Japanese and European ones thrown in. There are a dozen Lotuses, half a dozen MGs, Triumphs and Jaguars, and a bunch of Austin Healeys, TVRs, Datsuns, and Ferrari, Mazda, Morgan, AC, Sunbeam, Mini, and a few more.

Toad Hall is half the regular admission for two adults and two children.
(Discounted prices: $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for kids.)
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Celebrating
Cape Cod History

Historical Society of Old Yarmouth

To learn more about the fascinating history of Yarmouth and Cape Cod click here to visit the website for the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth (HSOY).

For instance, did you know that this Schooner Plaque identifies a home once owned by a Sea Captain?
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