Help us give our families Cool Culture Cards for free access to art and cultural institutions city-wide!

Let's get our youngest scholars into New York's world-famous museums, zoos, gardens and more! By helping to fund this project, you can help give our school's 3K, Pre-K, and Kindergarten students -- over 135 children -- access to the Cool Culture Family Pass, an all-inclusive access card that provides each kid with free and unlimited general admission for up to 5 people (children and adults!) to ninety cultural institutions for one year!

For a donation of $28 per child (at 100% participation), we could open access to thousands of dollars worth of admissions fees for every family. Since not every family can afford to contribute, we ask that you please consider sponsoring another child in your class and donating $50.

Cool Culture believes that "art is a human right, a powerful means of self-expression, and a bridge that allows us to transcend boundaries between and across cultures to build community." This community begins right here in Harlem -- where El Museo del Barrio, the National Jazz Museum, the Sugar Hill Children's Museum, and the soon-to-reopen Studio Museum will be free right here on our doorstep -- and extends to the furthest reaches of the city: to the botanical gardens, children's museums, and zoos of every borough; the American Museum of Natural History; the Met and the Cloisters; MoMa and MoMA PS1; the New York Hall of Science; the Whitney and Guggenheim, and many more...

With these passes, our students and their families will be granted free access to institutions they might not normally get a chance to explore due to lack of financial resources, accessibilty, or awareness. And because each pass can bring up to five people, the impact of your donation is multiplied, benefitting not only each child but parents, siblings, even friends who get to tag along. Together, we can open these doors for both our kids and the communities who love them.

Cool Culture 2023-2024

By P S 185 Parent Teacher Association

Cool Culture 2023-2024

A family's first ticket to a lifetime of learning