HARTMAN ROCK GARDEN
WESTCOTT HOUSE
SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM OF ART

Springfield Ohio is a Hub City

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House, Hartman Rock Garden and the Springfield Museum of Art are part of a “Hub City,” a Museums for All initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The initiative is administered by the Association of Children’s Museums through a cooperative agreement with IMLS.

Through Museums for All, those receiving food assistance (SNAP benefits) can gain free or reduced admission to more than 1,300 museums throughout the United States simply by presenting their SNAP EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer) card.

“Hub Cities” are defined as a community with at least three Museums for All museums.

In addition to Museum for All initiative, all three sites advance a variety of projects to make our sites accessible to a broader community, such as:

  1. All three sites offer tours and programming to our schools at no cost. In addition to waiving the admission fee, we also pursue grant funding to cover supplies, instructor fees, and other expenses related to producing our school outreach programs. Our sites recently partnered on a new initiative that gives the schools an opportunity to bring 75+ students to explore all three sites in one day. We will continue seek opportunities to partner in order to better serve our area’s teachers and students.

  2. Each site has secured funding & outside expertise to create experiences that significantly increase access and improve the experience for the audience with mobility issues, as well as the patrons with visual and hearing disabilities.

  3. We strive to create programming that helps us address the lack linguistic and cultural accessibility, including printed tour guides translated in Haitian Creole and Spanish; exhibits featuring artists of diverse cultural backgrounds; and projects engaging artists representing minorities to create new works of public art, etc.

  4. We partner on identifying ways to build bridges with our new immigrant population, while also reaching a much broader population that have historically experienced marginalization and neglect, including other racial minorities, as well as residents who have limited access to the arts & culture due to their economic situation, age, etc.