Smithsonian Magazine is sponsoring Free Museum Day 2011 on Saturday, September 24. Sign up for a free ticket (for you and one guest), find a participating museum near you and mark your calendar!

Our Portland friends will want to check out the Portland Art Museum that day or one of these participating Oregon museums:

• Antique Powerland Museum, Salem
• Baker Heritage Museum, Baker City
• Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland
• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene
• Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland
• Oregon History Museum, Portland
• Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Portland
• Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Hillsboro
• ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum, Ashland
• University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene
• Washington County Museum, Portland
• World Forestry Center Discovery Museum, Portland
• Yaquina Pacific Railroad Historical Society, Toledo