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This Saturday, Sept. 29, is Museum Day—when hundreds of museums
across the country open their doors and let you visit for free.

You do need to sign up for
your free tickets on the Museum Day website (each ticket is good for admission
for two people). Tickets will be emailed to you; print them and take with you to the
place you visit on Museum Day.

Click here to find a participating
museum near you.

A few I like for the history-minded:

• Here in Ohio, the 10-acre Fort Meigs, Ohio’s War
  of 1812 Battlefield in Perrysburg, gives you a look inside the Buckeye State’s
  role in the War of 1812.

• If an ancestor worked for the railroad, try the Western
  & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel and Museum in Tunnel Hill, Ga., where you can tour
  the South’s oldest railroad tunnel, a museum and the 1848 Clisby Austin house.

• Out West in Nevada, you can step into your Silver State ancestors’ shoes at the Nevada
  State Museum in Carson City, which features American Indian artifacts, fossils,
  a recreated ghost town and underground mine, and more.

• At the Western
  Heritage Center in Billings, Mont., you can see special exhibits on Montana Women
  at Work and how the railroad shaped Billings. One of the museum’s galleries replicates
  a 1930s dude ranch lodge.

• Among the many historic sites in Vermont is Burlington’s Ethan
  Allen Homestead Museum, where the home of the Green Mountain Boys’ leader has
  been restored.

• If you’re lucky enough to be in Washington, DC, participating museums include the National
  Archives Experience, Newseum and National
  Building Museum.

Have fun!