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Detroit Museum Adventure Pass

The popular southeast Michigan cultural exploration program, offering awesome family discounts, is heading online May 25-Sept. 3, 2012

If you've ever picked up a Detroit Museum Adventure Pass from your local library, you know what a great deal it can be: usually a two-for-the-price-of-one admission to local cultural attractions.

Now, for its fifth year in 2012 – which kicks off May 25 and runs till Sept. 3 – MAP is shaking things up. Don't worry: Discounts are still available, just delivered on the web, instead, says Amy J. DeWys-VanHecke with the Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan.

"The new system allows for a variety of offerings for people to visit and participate in," she says, "whether it's a symphony performance or a local play."

Rather than going to a library to pick up coupons, families can hop online and choose from about local institutions (maybe even more!). Some will still offer two-for-one rates; others will provide a percentage off.

Institutions cover a wide range of options in Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties – and a bit beyond – here in southeast Michigan. Here's the initial list of participants:

• Anton Art Center in Mount Clemens
• Arab American National Museum in Dearborn
• The Art Experience in Pontiac
• Art & Scraps in Detroit
• Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center in Birmingham
• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit
• Detroit Artists Market
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit
• Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores
• Grosse Pointe Historical Society
• Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills
• Howell Conference & Nature Center
• Huron Valley Council for the Arts in Highland
• Michigan Philharmonic in Plymouth
• Full Impact Theater in Oakland County
• Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
• Monroe County Historical Museum
• Pewabic Pottery in Detroit
• Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea
• Scarab Club in Detroit
• Shalom Street museum in West Bloomfield Township
• Tipping Point Theatre in Northville
• University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor

The new discount pass should be around for a while, DeWys-VanHeck says, and possibly expanded for use all year long. Check out the Metro Parent listing to link to the website for the 2012 Detroit Museum Adventure Pass!