Explore More Illinois is a cultural pass program that allows Illinois public library cardholders to get offers from museums, park districts, historical societies, performing and visual arts centers, and other attractions. Explore More Illinois is free and can be accessed 24/7 from any computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Login here to enter your library card and number and get your museum passes. Museum passes can be printed or stored on your phone.
Participating attractions:
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum / Springfield
- American Writers Museum / Chicago
- Anderson Japanese Gardens / Rockford
- Annoyance Theatre / Chicago
- Buffalo Grove Park District Community Arts Center / Buffalo Grove
- Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House / Moline
- Cache Bayou Outfitters / Ullin
- Chicago Children's Museum / Chicago
- Chicago History Museum / Chicago
- Chicago Maritime Museum / Chicago
- Chicago Red Stars / Bridgeview
- City Lit Theater / Chicago
- Civil War Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Dillon Home Museum / Sterling
- Dinosaur Discovery Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Discovery Center Museum / Rockford
- DuPage Children's Museum / Naperville
- Edwards Place / Springfield
- Elgin Symphony Orchestra / Elgin
- Ellwood House Museum / DeKalb
- Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum / Oak Park
- Exploration Station / Bourbonnais
- Fox River Grove Memorial Public Library / Fox River Grove
- Galesburg Parks and Recreation Lake Storey Beach Boats / Galesburg
- Galesburg Parks and Recreation Lakeside Water Park / Galesburg
- Gateway Grizzlies / Sauget
- Governor John Wood Mansion from the Historical Society of Quincy & Adams County / Quincy
- The Hegeler Carus Mansion / LaSalle
- Illinois Holocaust Museum / Skokie
- Kenosha City Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Kankakee County Museum / Kankakee
- Kidzeum of Health and Science / Springfield
- Lansing Historical Society Museum / Lansing
- Lincoln Heritage Museum / Lincoln
- Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art / Oak Brook
- Love's Sweet Arrow / Tinley Park
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art / Evanston
- Metropolis Performing Arts Centre / Arlington Heights
- Museum of Broadcast Communications / Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College / Chicago
- Museum of the Grand Prairie / Mahomet
- North Suburban Library District / Loves Park and Roscoe
- Peoria Park District Owens Recreation Center Ice Arena / Peoria
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library / Chicago
- Raupp Museum / Buffalo Grove
- Rockford Art Museum / Rockford
- Southside Healing Arts / Peoria
- Springfield Arts Association / Springfield
- Vermilion County Museum / Danville
- Volcano Falls / Loves Park
- Wheels O' Time Museum / Dunlap
- Windy City ThunderBolts / Crestwood