Get ready for Museum Day

Have one of Tampa Bay’s top-notch institutions on your bucket list? Now’s your chance to go for free.

The iconic Dalí Museum shown at a distance

St. Petersburg’s Dalí Museum sits on the city’s waterfront and holds Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks among other works in its collection.

Photo by @dalimuseum

Free Museum Day is this Saturday, Sept. 17, but don’t show up to your fave Tampa Bay cultural centers without a ticket. Here’s the skinny on which local museums + institutions are participating; all you need to do is text the group chat and book those tickets.

Make sure to book individual tickets or check to see if reservations are required at each of the museums on their respective sites (we’ve linked them all below ) and bring I.D.

Hillsborough County

Pinellas County

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