Here Ye! Here Ye! The Toronto Public Library, in conjunction with the Sun Life Financial company, is giving away week-long passes to all the good stuff in the city. Every branch has passes to the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Bata Shoe Museum, Black Creek Pioneer Village, the Gardiner Museum, the Museum of Inuit Art, the Textile Museum of Canada, and the City of Toronto’s Historic Museums. Select branches will also have passes for the Ontario Science Centre, Casa Loma, and the Royal Ontario Museum.
I know: how can you cash in on this? First, take your ID and current address info and suck it up and pay those old library fines so you can get a card. (Am I right or am I right?) Next, wake up at some ungodly hour on a Saturday morning (with a couple exceptions) so you can be first in line as the library opens. The MAPs (Museum and Arts Pass) are given out on a first-come, first-served basis and there is a limit of one pass per adult library card. Each pass admits one family for one visit. Hearsay tells me that these passes will be given out every week until the end of April, but I can’t confirm that on the website. So I’ll have to wait to talk to a real person during business hours and come back with the confirmation.
Look up all the deets here. There’s no excuse to stay home now. And I’ll see you at the museum.