Louisville Cultural Pass
The Cultural Pass for Louisville families is here!
Get your pass online, it’s free. Louisville families can enjoy learning fun all year round.
Louisville Cultural Pass 2024 will be available for June 1 – August 4, 2024
You will need to register for the Cultural Pass and can do that this year in person or digitally by downloading the app or visiting the library registration page. Bonus: You can register for the library summer reading program at the same time.
The Cultural Pass is open to people in Greater Louisville from ages 0-21 and their families.
The Summer Reading Kickoff and Cultural Pass Showcase will be an in-person event on Saturday, June 1, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Main Library downtown.
The Summer Reading & Cultural Pass Kickoff will feature hands-on crafts and activities, performances, and MORE from the Library and participating Cultural Pass venues.
Libraries:
Louisville Free Public Library
Jeffersonville Township Public Library
Charlestown-Clark County Public Library
Harrison County Public Library
2024 participating venues list below – Over 50 participating! The list will be updated as more venues are added.
| 21c Museum Hotel | The Food Literacy Project | Louisville Visual Art |
| Actors Theatre of Louisville | Frazier History Museum | Louisville Water Tower |
| Ambo Dance Theatre, Inc. | Angles Selfie Museum | Louisville Youth Choir Inc. |
| Arts Alliance of Southern Indiana | Guru Vandana Academy inc. | Louisville Zoo |
| Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest | Harrison County Discovery Center | Lovely-Allen Art, LLC |
| Blackacre Conservancy | Historic Locust Grove | The Louisville Leopard Percussionists |
| Commonwealth Theatre Center | Jeffersonville Public Art; The Art Center in NOCO Arts and Cultural District | Muhammad Ali Center |
| Conrad-Caldwell House Museum | Kentucky Derby Museum | Parklands of Floyds Fork, The |
| Corydon Capitol State Historic Site | Kentucky Science Center | Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing |
| Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site | Kentucky Shakespeare | Roots-101 African American Museum |
| Falls of the Ohio State Park | KMAC Museum | Speed Art Museum |
| Farmington Historic Plantation | Little Loomhouse, The | StageOne Family Theatre |
| Filson Historical Society, The | Looking for Lilith Theatre Company | Waterfront Botanical Gardens |
| Flamenco Louisville | Louisville Ballet School, The | Yew Dell Botanical Gardens |
| Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center, The | Louisville Nature Center |
This year, TARC will help connect Cultural Pass holders who need transportation assistance to access arts and cultural venues through a limited number of passes for those in need, good for riding TARC throughout the summer.
Here’s a video about the Cultural Pass
Louisville is full of so many fabulous options for families – museums, parks, entertainment. This pass is an option that’s FREE that provides access to kids and their caregivers to venues that would, overall, would be expensive to go to in entirety in a year. With the cultural pass, it’s free. The details are all listed below and potentially, if there are updates, there’s more information on the Fund for the Arts website.
Other things to know:
- Participants 0-21 can get a Louisville Cultural Pass
- One adult will get in free with the children (under age 17) who have passes
- It’s for family use, not for groups
- You don’t have to live in Jefferson County to participate, you just have to have a library card from one of many libraries.
- The summer cultural pass program is June 1- August 4, 2024.
- Louisville Free Public Library, Bullitt County Public Library, Jeffersonville Township Library, Charlestown-Clark Library, Floyd County Library, Harrison County Library
For more summer fun ideas, click here.
