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Museum Day = A great Saturday in Philly. (Photo by G. Widman for GPTMC)

Get your culture on for free this Saturday, September 25th, thanks to the sixth annual Museum Day.

In the Philadelphia region, approximately 20 museums are giving their sales staff the day off and inviting the public to experience their collections for free.

All you have to do to is go the official Museum Day website, fill out the form, and download the required ticket.

And here are some ideas for what you could do with your Museum Day ticket, good for admission to one museum for you and a guest:

• The Franklin Institute – Cleopatra isn’t included in the admission, but when’s the last time you walked through The Giant Heart or tested your skills in The Sports Challenge? Plus, the museum’s totally re-imagined Changing Earth and Electricity exhibits opened earlier this year.

• Brandywine River Museum – Fall in love with the Philadelphia countryside all over again when you browse the breathtaking works of the suburb-loving Wyeth family. While you’re there, check out the current exhibition, Reality Check: Contemporary American Trompe l’Oeil.

• The African American Museum in Philadelphia – Meet some people who lived and worked in 18th-century Philadelphia through life-size, 3-D projections in the Audacious Freedom exhibition, and then go beyond the textbook account of Rosa Parks with 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story.

• Scott Arboretum – It might not be a museum, but Saturday’s weather definitely calls for some outdoor activities. So take in the last of the beautiful weather by strolling the arboretum’s 300 acres, and then join the tour of the three onsite green roofs.

• Rosenbach Museum & Library – Head to the picture-perfect 2100 block of Delancey Place and step inside this unassuming townhouse to find rare literary treasures, including original manuscripts of Ulysses and Alice in Wonderland and 10,000 drawings, notes and editions belonging to Maurice Sendak.

Additional participating museums include The Academy of Natural Sciences, PAFA, Penn Museum, ICA, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Independence Seaport Museum and The Pearl S. Buck House.

To see a full list of participating museums, visit the Museum Day’s website. Also check out their FAQs.

Museum Day [Official Site]