Many festivals offer free or discounted admission for designated drivers, and car services like Uber will sometimes offer discounts to festival attendees.

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The Art Fund also relaunched its membership card - which will now be known as the National Art Pass - offering free or discount admission to more than 200 museums and galleries.

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Until then, tourists eager for free museum admission should bypass big cities for smaller, lesser-known ones, or otherwise target free and affordable options in big cities like the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC (which uniquely have free admission as a national trust).

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Until then, tourists eager for free museum admission should bypass big cities for smaller, lesser-known ones, or otherwise target free and affordable options in big cities like the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC (which uniquely has free admission as a national trust).

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Some of Congress's fiercest fights were over the admission of new states to the union, and whether they should be slave or free.

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