{"id":5662,"date":"2015-03-29T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:48:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:48:05","slug":"blue-star-museums-offer-free-admission-to-military-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=5662","title":{"rendered":"Blue Star Museums Offer Free Admission to Military Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: block; float: left; padding: 5px;\"><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- Cheap-Travel-Side-Ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 336px; height: 280px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0542617997214413\" data-ad-slot=\"4615336226\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Blue Star Museums offer free admission for U.S. active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, from Memorial Day, May 25, 2015, through Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration amongst the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across the United States, the free admission includes, at this writing, more than 200 museums across New England.<\/p>\n<p>Some familiar museums in New England participating:<br \/>\nMark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn.<br \/>\nYale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Conn.<br \/>\nMaine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine<br \/>\nPortland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine<br \/>\nMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.<br \/>\nNew Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass.<br \/>\nPeabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.<br \/>\nCanterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, N.H.<br \/>\nCurrier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H.<br \/>\nStrawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, N.H.<br \/>\nInternational Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum, Newport, R.I.<br \/>\nSlater Mill, Pawtucket, R.I.<br \/>\nShelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt.<br \/>\nBillings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, Vt.<\/p>\n<p>Log onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.gov\/national\/blue-star-museums#!RI\" target=\"_blank\">National Endowment for the Arts Blue Star Museum<\/a> page for more information and updates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnewengland.com\/whaling-museum-new-bedford.html\" target=\"_blank\">Visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnewengland.com\/hall-patriot-place.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hall at Patriot Place, Foxboro, Mass.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1001\">Ecotarium, Worcester, Mass.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Star Museums offer free admission for U.S. active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, from Memorial Day, May 25, 2015, through Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2015. A collaboration amongst the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[283,292,2305],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}