Free Fun Fridays begins June 27th!

For the fifth year in a row, Highland Street Foundation will be offering Free Fun Fridays!

Every Friday starting June 27th and running through August 29th, there will be free admission to a number of museums and cultural centers. In total, 66 museums will be featured over the ten weeks. Check the schedule to see the full list of all the exciting places you can visit! For more information, visit the links below or call 617-969-8900.

• Free Fun Fridays Homepage

• Printer-Friendly 2014 Schedule 

• FAQ-English & FAQ-Spanish

•  Highland Street Foundation Homepage

Horticulture Hotline

- Growing increasingly anxious over a withering plant in your home or apartment?
- Is a part of your garden giving you serious grief?
- Are you desperately wishing you had an expert gardener you could speak with but don't know anyone with a green thumb?

Horticulture Hotline

Good news! Tower Hill Botanic Garden, located in Boylston MA, has a Horticulture Hotline! Staffed by the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, the hotline operates Wednesdays from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. Call and discuss all your planting issues with expert gardeners, or leave a voicemail and they will call you back during HortLine hours. You can also send your questions by e-mail.

•      Horticulture Hotline: 508.869.6111 x104 
•      E-mail: hortline@towerhillbg.org
•      More info: Tower Hill Botanic Garden Horticulture Hotline
   

MA Master Gardeners Help Line

If Wednesdays don't work with your schedule, you can also get help on other days by contacting the Massachusetts Master Gardeners directly. If you aren't able to call during open hours, you can leave a message and they will call you back. Or, you can e-mail your question on their website. (You can even submit a picture!)

Hours: 10am-2pm

April through October: M, W, F

March and November: W, F

December through February: W

• Help Line: 617.933.4929
• Submit an e-mail / more information: MA Master Gardener Help Line

Visit Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Never been to Tower Hill? Considering visiting this spring or summer? Don't forget that you can check-out a museum pass at the library and receive half-price admission. Book here: Museum Passes.

Free Fun Fridays!

Once again, the Highland Street Foundation is offering free admissions on Fridays to a variety of Museums and Cultural Attractions in Massachusetts throughout the summer.  They begin on Friday, June 28 and continue until Friday, August 30. The places include the Stone and Franklin Zoos, Boston Children’s Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, and Hancock Shaker Village.  The list is extensive.    The events are totally free, except for parking and there is no ticket, ID, coupon, or password required (with the exception of the Boston Harbor Island ferries, the New Repertory Theatre and Reagle Music Theatre performances).
Click here for more info. 

 

Free Admission to Museums!

Every Friday for nine weeks during the summer the Highland Street Foundation is providing free admission to museums and cultural attractions across Massachusetts.  Beginning  Friday, July 1st we will sponsor 36 free venues including the Museum of Fine Arts, Franklin Park Zoo, Old Sturbridge Village, Plimouth Plantation and 32 more.  These venues will be absolutely free, no tickets or advanced reservations necessary.
View this link for more info.


 

Dale Chihuly at the MFA

With passes from the Framingham Public Library to the Museum of Fine Arts, you will be able to visit “Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass” without additional cost.  At the MFA until August 7, 2011, this amazing exhibit showcases both new and archival work of this master glass artist.

Born in Tacoma, WA, and now based in Seattle, Chihuly received a Masters in Fine Arts and taught for many years at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.  His work is exhibited in over 200 museums worldwide, and is included in many private and commercial collections.  Want more info? Look here!

To reserve passes to the MFA or a variety of other places, start at our web page, http://www.framinghamlibrary.org/ and follow the links to Museum Passes.  You can book the passes yourself, or call us at (508) 532-5570, ext. 4361.

Spellman Museum

Summer is coming and you may be looking for local activities. Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Framingham Library Association and other supporters, we are fortunate to be able to offer a wide range of passes for free or reduced admission to local museums, historic attractions, botanic gardens, and zoos. With the help of the library pass program, you and your family can explore new attractions and revisit favorites.

You may book a pass by calling the Reference Desk at 508-532-5570 ext 4361, or you can view their availability and reserve passes yourself by starting at our web page, www.framinghamlibrary.org.

A lesser-known local attraction is the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History. Founded in 1960, the Spellman Museum, on the campus of Regis College in Weston, is one of only 2 museums in the country devoted to stamps and postal history.  The Museum provides a variety of services to assist collectors as well as members of the general public who have questions about stamps and postal history. The Spellman Museum's collection is estimated at 2,000,000 items including representative, worldwide stamp collections; individual items of rarity and curiosity; representative specialized collections of a particular stamp, topical and thematic collections; and information about the development of the postal and telegraph system.

In addition, The Spellman Museum Library is the major philatelic library in New England and one of a handful of significant philatelic libraries in the United States.

They are open Thursday through Sunday from 12 noon to 5 pm. Our pass admits 2 adults for free; children under 16 are always free.   Check their web site,  http://www.spellman.org/ for special exhibits.