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Cultural Passport

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The City of Philadelphia is steeped in culture and history, all the while offering a thriving environment for commerce. Because Drexel is located only minutes from Center City, we are able to fully utilize Philadelphia as a classroom in which to deepen our students' understanding of the world, their environment and themselves.

Drexel University's Cultural Passport program provides one free admission to twenty-eight of Philadelphia's best cultural, historical and performing arts institution during a students first year. Students are provided a Cultural Passport early in the fall as a part of UNIV 101, and may use it for one calendar year.

Using their Cultural Passport, each student is free to experience opera through a performance of the Philadelphia Opera Company, the ballet through the Pennsylvania Ballet, theatre through the Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre, Mandel Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre and the Wilma Theatre, and the World of Music - classical, jazz, and alternative through the Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and World Cafe Live. Students may walk in the steps of our country's founders and explore historical treasures of Independence National Historical Park Independence Seaport Museum, the Atwater Kent Museum, the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum, or Bartram's Garden, visit the art treasures contained within the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Art Alliance, literary treasures such as James Joyce's Ulysses and the works of Maurice Sendak at the Rosenbach Museum, cultural artifacts at the African American Museum of Philadelphia, or the National Museum of American Jewish History. They are free to explore our great science centers, the Franklin Institute, the Philadelphia Zoo and the Academy of Natural Sciences, and visits the oddities of the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and they can explore the natural beauty and man-made achievement of the Fairmont Waterworks. Once a student has been given one free admission to a particular institution, we hope that they will choose to return using the discounted rates for college students that are posted in their Passport.

We are deeply grateful to the following institutions that have chosen to partner with Drexel University in this endeavor:

  • The Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Academy of Vocal Arts
  • African American Museum of Philadelphia
  • Arden Theatre Company
  • Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia
  • Bartram’s Garden
  • The Curtis Institute of Music
  • Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia
  • Fairmount Waterworks
  • The Franklin Institute
  • Independence National Historical Park
  • Independence Seaport Museum
  • The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
  • InterAct Theatre
  • The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
  • Mandell Theater of Drexel University
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
  • National Museum of American Jewish History
  • National Liberty Museum
  • Opera Company of Philadelphia
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Pennsylvania Ballet
  • Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Philadelphia Art Alliance
  • Philadelphia Film Society
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • The Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre
  • Philadelphia Zoo
  • The Rosenbach Museum & Library
  • The Wilma Theater
  • World Café Live