{"id":9096,"date":"2012-05-21T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2012-05-21T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:44:40","slug":"passport-program-encourages-area-cultural-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=9096","title":{"rendered":"Passport program encourages area cultural travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Discount promotion offers admission to 11 Brandywine Valley attractions<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9227\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nemours_Mansion1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9227\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9227  \" style=\"border: 2px solid navy; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Nemours Mansion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Nemours_Mansion1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nemours Mansion is the newest addition to the Treasure Trail Passport program that allows a one-price admission for a wide range of local museums and destinations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the fourth year in a row, the Brandywine Museums and Gardens Alliance is offering a Treasure Trail Passport, a cost-saving approach to taking advantage of the region\u2019s cultural offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion, which includes admission discounts to eleven Brandywine Valley attractions (new this year is Nemours Mansion and Gardens), runs from this Saturday through Sept. 3. For $35 per adult, or $75 for a family of two adults and up to three children, visitors receive a passport good for one-time admission at the Brandywine River Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Delaware Historical Society &amp; Read House, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Hagley Museum and Library, Longwood Gardens, Mt. Cuba Center, Nemours Mansion &amp; Gardens, Rockwood Park &amp; Museum, and Winterthur Museum, Garden &amp; Library.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Visitors who return a completed passport will be entered into a drawing on Oct.1 for gift certificates from top local restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a unique opportunity for our local friends and neighbors to enjoy the gems in their own backyard, and for out-of-town guests to visit the spectacular gardens, museums, and historic sites conveniently clustered in the Brandywine Valley,\u201d said Molly Keresztury, the Alliance chairwoman. &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to have added Nemours Mansion &amp; Gardens to the passport this year, while keeping the price the same as in 2011.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The passport program is funded in part by the Delaware Tourism Office, the Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Amtrak, and Today Media, Inc. Tickets are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitwilmingtonde.com\/pporder\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.visitwilmingtonde.com\/pporder\/<\/a>. They can also be purchased at all all eleven sites, the Greater Wilmington Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau, and the I-95 Welcome Center in Newark, De. For more information, visit www.brandywinetreasures.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount promotion offers admission to 11 Brandywine Valley attractions For the fourth year in a row, the Brandywine Museums and Gardens Alliance is offering a Treasure Trail Passport, a cost-saving approach to taking advantage of the region\u2019s cultural offerings. The promotion, which includes admission discounts to eleven Brandywine Valley attractions (new this year is Nemours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[180,1326,1327,1328,1329,1335,1330,369,1331,1332,1333,1334],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","tag-brandywine-river-museum","tag-delaware-art-museum","tag-delaware-center-for-the-contemporary-arts","tag-delaware-historical-society-read-house","tag-delaware-museum-of-natural-history","tag-garden-library","tag-hagley-museum-and-library","tag-longwood-gardens","tag-mt-cuba-center","tag-nemours-mansion-gardens","tag-rockwood-park-museum","tag-winterthur-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}