Experience Kits

Be a tourist in your own city with free museum admission!

Thanks to a partnership with the Heinz Center Affiliates Program, Allegheny County libraries are offering FREE ADMISSION for two adults and six children to a number of museums and historical sites around Pittsburgh! Each pass can be checked out for up to one week at a time. Plus, each pass comes with virtual access to educational information, itinerary ideas, and other fun content.  

2025 sites include: 

  • Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
  • Fort Pitt Museum
  • Bushy Run Battlefield
  • Captain William Vicary Mansion
  • Depreciation Lands Museum
  • Duncan & Miller Glass Museum
  • Gibson House Manor
  • Historic Fort Steuben
  • Historic Harmony

To learn more about this year’s sites, download a brochure or visit:  https://aclalibraries.org/experience-kits/

Our kits typically reserved from Monday to Sunday. Kits cannot be placed on hold in our online catalog; instead, give us a call at (412) 882-6622. 

Visit a museum and enter to win a prize!
Each time you visit a museum site using an Experience Kit, you can enter to win our grand prize! Complete the entry form here for each site you have visited by October 31, 2025.