SFMOMA gives San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) TK-12 educators, paraeducators, administrators and staff a free General Admission ticket when they show proof of employment. It’s open to SFUSD employees only, so as written it doesn’t cover teachers in other districts, private schools or other cities, and it’s one ticket per employee rather than a reduced price for the whole group you’re with.
If you work for SFUSD and have been paying the adult price at the front desk, you can stop. If you teach somewhere else in the Bay Area, the museum doesn’t list a teacher ticket for you, but we’ve pulled together what its own pages do offer further down.
How To Get The SFMOMA Teacher Discount
The museum’s SFUSD Employee Tickets FAQ says the tickets are available for walk-up admission only. You go to the museum and show proof of employment to redeem your free General Admission ticket, so this isn’t something you book ahead online.
The page says the proof can be a copy of a recent pay stub, a current school or union ID card, or an active SFUSD email account. It also says you may obscure private information, such as your social security number and salary, so you don’t need to hand over anything you’d rather keep to yourself.
What The Ticket Covers
The ticket is a complimentary General Admission ticket, and the FAQ page is firm about two limits. The program provides one General Admission ticket per SFUSD employee, which is the page’s answer to whether you can bring a guest, so a friend or a family member would need their own ticket. And the ticket is non-transferable, so a colleague can’t use yours.
For a sense of what a guest pays, the visit page lists Adult at $30, Senior (65 years and older) at $25, Students (full time, with ID) at $23, and Age 18 and younger as free. Members get in free.
The Educator Pass Is Gone
If you’ve seen SFMOMA’s Educator Pass mentioned somewhere, the FAQ page says the museum has discontinued acceptance of it. What replaced it for SFUSD staff is the complimentary General Admission ticket described above, and the museum’s Deals + Discounts page lists the same offer under SFUSD Employee Tickets.
If You Teach Outside SFUSD
That Deals + Discounts page has no general teacher discount, and the visit page’s ticket table has no teacher row. The student price is for full-time students with ID, so it’s not meant for you as a teacher. Two items on the Deals + Discounts page aren’t tied to your job but are worth knowing about. One is the Discover & Go Library Program, which lets library cardholders from select Bay Area libraries check out free passes online, so your local library card may do the work. The other is Free Days at SFMOMA, which the page describes as open to the entire community.
What We Couldn’t Confirm
The FAQ page lists educators, paraeducators, administrators and staff but doesn’t define staff, so we can’t say whether substitutes, contractors or charter-school employees are covered. It also says General Admission, so we couldn’t confirm whether the ticket gets you into a special exhibition that has its own admission. For either question, the page gives teachers@sfmoma.org for additional questions.
Q&A
Does SFMOMA give teachers a discount?
Yes, to SFUSD employees. The museum gives them a complimentary General Admission ticket with proof of employment. We didn’t find a teacher ticket for educators outside that district.
Do I have to work for SFUSD?
As the FAQ page is written, yes. It names SFUSD TK-12 educators, paraeducators, administrators and staff.
What counts as proof of employment?
A copy of a recent pay stub, a current school or union ID card, or an active SFUSD email account. You may obscure private information such as your social security number and salary.
Can I book the ticket online?
No. The page says SFUSD tickets are available for walk-up admission only.
Can I bring a guest on my ticket?
The program provides one General Admission ticket per SFUSD employee, so a guest would need a ticket of their own.
Can a colleague use my ticket?
No. The FAQ page says your SFUSD ticket is non-transferable.
Is the Educator Pass still accepted?
No. The FAQ page says the museum has discontinued acceptance of it.
Who do I contact with questions?
The FAQ page lists teachers@sfmoma.org.
More Information:
The details above come from SFMOMA’s own pages as they loaded when we checked, and programs change without notice. See more entertainment discounts for teachers.