Museum Pass Program
Explore More Illinois:
Makes it possible for member libraries to offer free passes, discounted admission, and other deals from a wide variety of illinois cultural attractions to library cardholders.
This program will be provided as a service to our member libraries, and there will be no cost for Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) libraries to participate.
Explore More Illinois is a new program developed and managed by RAILS. It is separate and distinct from the Museum Adventure Pass administered by Libraries First.
How it works
Cardholders will reserve all passes/discounts online. Libraries will not need to manage and administer physical passes.
Current Attractions
Participating Attractions (as of May 10, 2022)
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum / Springfield
- American Writers Museum / Chicago
- Anderson Japanese Gardens / Rockford
- Annoyance Theatre / Chicago
- The Arts at Illinois Central College / East Peoria
- Buffalo Grove Park District Community Arts Center / Buffalo Grove
- Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House / Moline
- Central Illinois Ballet / Peoria
- Chicago Children's Museum / Chicago
- Chicago Maritime Museum / Chicago
- City Lit Theater / Chicago
- Civil War Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Dinosaur Discovery Museum / Kenosha, WI
- Discovery Center Museum / Rockford
- Edwards Place / Springfield
- Ellwood House Museum / DeKalb
- Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park / Oak Park
- Exploration Station...a children's museum Bourbonnais Park District / Bourbonnais
- Fox River Grove Memorial Public Library / Fox River Grove
- Galesburg Parks & Recreation Lakeside Recreation Facility / Galesburg
- Gateway Grizzlies / Sauget
- Harris Theater / Chicago
- Hegeler Carus Mansion / LaSalle
- Illinois Holocaust Museum / Skokie
- Joliet Slammers / Joliet
- Kankakee County Museum / Kankakee
- Kenosha Public Museum / Kenosha, WI
- 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 Center / Arlington Heights
- Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College / Chicago
- Museum of the Grand Prairie / Mahomet
- North Suburban Library District / Loves Park and Roscoe
- Peoria Riverfront Museum / Peoria
- Raupp Museum / Buffalo Grove
- Springfield Art Association / Springfield
- Vermilion County Museum / Danville
- Volcano Falls / Loves Park
- Wheels O' Time Museum / Dunlap