Museums on Us December 2026: Free Entry Sat.-Sun., Dec. 5-6

Bank of America cardholders get free general admission at partner museums on Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6, 2026, the next Museums on Us weekend on the bank’s museum list. The program covers “the first full weekend of every month,” Bank of America says, and four listed museums limit it to a single day.

December 1, 2026, is a Tuesday, so the first full weekend is Dec. 5-6. The bank’s page says the offer is for “our cardholders” and sends visitors to each museum for its own procedures. The city table below lists partner museums in 15 metro areas with those day limits, and a second table computes the 2027 weekends.

Museums on Us partner museums by city

Bank of America’s list covers each metro below. Every museum is open to cardholders both days unless the limit column says otherwise. The Children’s Museum of Houston’s own page lists Saturday, Dec. 5, through Sunday, Dec. 6, 2026, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for the weekend; hours at other museums are on their own pages.

City	Partner museums	Day limit
New York	Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Jewish Museum; The Met Fifth Avenue	The Jewish Museum: Sundays only
Los Angeles	Autry Museum of the American West; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Skirball Cultural Center	None listed
Chicago	Adler Planetarium; Art Institute of Chicago; Griffin Museum of Science and Industry	Griffin Museum: Sundays only
Houston	Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Museum of Natural Science; The Children’s Museum of Houston	None listed
Dallas-Fort Worth	Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum; Fort Worth Museum of Science and History	None listed
Philadelphia	African American Museum in Philadelphia; Barnes Foundation and Calder Gardens; Philadelphia Museum of Art	Barnes Foundation and Calder Gardens: Saturdays only
Washington, DC	National Museum of Women in the Arts; Rubell Museum DC; The Phillips Collection	None listed
Atlanta	Atlanta History Center; Center for Civil and Human Rights; High Museum of Art	Atlanta History Center: Sundays only
Boston	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Institute of Contemporary Art	None listed
San Francisco Bay Area	Legion of Honor and de Young Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Computer History Museum, Mountain View	None listed
Seattle	Seattle Art Museum; The Museum of Flight; Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience	None listed
Miami	Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College; Miami Children’s Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami	None listed
Phoenix	Heard Museum; Phoenix Art Museum	None listed
Denver	Denver Art Museum; Denver Botanic Gardens; Denver Museum of Nature & Science	None listed
Charlotte	Bechtler Museum of Modern Art; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture; Mint Museum Uptown	None listed

“None listed” means the bank’s page shows no day limit for that museum. The bank’s locations map says to “review eligibility and terms prior to your visit” and that adjusted admission procedures, “if applicable,” appear when you select a partner name. The Children’s Museum of Houston’s page says Museums on Us reaches “more than 225 cultural institutions,” so the full list is longer than this table.

What to bring to a Museums on Us museum

Partner pages such as the Children’s Museum of Houston’s and the Phillips Collection’s set out the same basics. Check your museum’s own page, because these two pages do not speak for every partner.

• An active Bank of America, Merrill or Bank of America Private Bank (U.S. Trust) credit or debit card. The Phillips Collection says physical or digital cards are accepted and expired cards are not.
• A photo ID, such as a driver’s license, passport or other government-issued ID, which the Phillips Collection says it requires.
• Ticket plans for the exhibits. The Children’s Museum of Houston says the offer excludes ticketed and special exhibitions and fundraising events, and describes the program as “Cardholder only.”

The printable above carries the city list and the day limits to take with you.

Museums on Us weekends in 2027

Bank of America has not announced 2027 dates. The table applies the bank’s rule, the first full weekend of every month, to the 2027 calendar. Treat it as computed, not confirmed, and recheck the bank’s page each month, which names the next weekend.

Month	Computed weekend
January 2027	Sat.-Sun., Jan. 2-3
February 2027	Sat.-Sun., Feb. 6-7
March 2027	Sat.-Sun., Mar. 6-7
April 2027	Sat.-Sun., Apr. 3-4
May 2027	Sat.-Sun., May 1-2
June 2027	Sat.-Sun., Jun. 5-6
July 2027	Sat.-Sun., Jul. 3-4
August 2027	Sat.-Sun., Aug. 7-8
September 2027	Sat.-Sun., Sep. 4-5
October 2027	Sat.-Sun., Oct. 2-3
November 2027	Sat.-Sun., Nov. 6-7
December 2027	Sat.-Sun., Dec. 4-5

Mark these on the printable yearly calendar and the December 2026 printable calendar. For other dates in the month, see December 2026 holidays and days until each date. Fee-waiver days at federal parks run on a separate schedule, covered in national parks free days 2026.