OGDENSBURG -- The Frederic Remington Art Museum has joined a collaboration that provides families an opportunity to enjoy the nation's cultural heritage and learn more about their community, especially after a military move.

The launch of Blue Star Museums, including the Remington and the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 other museums across America, offers free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

A list of participating museums is available at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.

Frederic Remington (1861-1909), whose life and career had deep military connections, including a Civil War veteran father and hundreds of published military drawings and paintings from the west, Canada, Mexico and around the world, would have been pleased to know about the Blue Star Museum program, a statement from the Remington Museum said, adding that he would also be pleased to know that Fort Drum is so close to his museum and in the North Country, where Remington was born and to where he often returned.

This year’s Blue Star Museums represent not just fine arts museums, but also science museums, history museums, nature centers, and dozens of children’s museums, including newly participating museums: the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia; The Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame Museum in Memphis Tennessee; the Hagerman Fossil 3 Beds National Monument in Hagerman Idaho; and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Museums are welcome to join Blue Star Museums throughout the summer.

All summer long, Blue Star Museums will share stories through social media. Follow Blue Star Museums on Twitter @NEAarts and @BlueStarFamily, #bluestarmuseums, on Facebook, and read the NEA Art Works blog for weekly stories on participating museums and exhibits.