Sunday Editorial: Get acquainted with our museums, many for free

Publication Date: 09/26/09


Today's a good day to check St. Augustine and St. Johns County museums, many of them for free.

Three St. Johns County museums join thousands nationally today for Smithsonian Magazine's annual Museum Day. It's day for people to visit museums and absorb history, art, culture. Admission is free with a Museum Day card which is a few keystrokes away on the computer.

The museums are the city of St. Augustine 's Government House and Spanish Quarter Museum and the World Golf Hall of Fame. In neighboring Flagler County, the Florida Agricultural Museum, just south of the St. Johns County line off U.S. 1, is also participating in Museum Day.

Go to www.smithsonianmag.com and click on the link to Museum Day for your free admission pass, good for two people. Or, if you have September's issue of Smithsonian, the pass is included.

We're also reminded by Jay Humphreys, communications director for the St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and Beaches Visitor and Convention Bureau, that St. Johns County residents with a valid ID will get in free through Oct. 31 at the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum.

Always free to county residents with a valid ID, according to Humphreys, are the following museums: Government House, the Lightner Museum, the Colonial Spanish Quarter, the Fountain of Youth, the Ximenez-Fatio House, the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse, the Spanish Military Hospital , the Father Miguel O'Reilly House, Authentic Old Drug Store, Fort Matanzas National Monument, St. Photios Chapel, and the Pe http://www.staugustine.com/stories/092609/opinions_2015720.shtml

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