Riverside Art Museum and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture
Current Admission Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm and Sunday, 12 pm – 5 pm
Admission
- Adult: $15.95
- Senior (65+ years): $10.95
- Educator/College Student: $10.95 (ID is required at check-in)
- Children (13-17 years): $10.95
- Children (12 years and under): Free
- Military personnel (active only): Free (Accompanying adults and children are also free; ID is required at check-in)
- RAM (Riverside Art Museum & The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture) members: Free
- Museum for All: Show your Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or WIC card and photo ID in person at guest services to receive discounted admission ($1 per person for up to 4 people)
Admission tickets include entry into both Riverside Art Museum and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture. Tickets are nonrefundable.
In Person Admission
Riverside Art Museum and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture will always do our best to accommodate in person admission during open hours of operation. If we are at capacity, we may request that visitors wait a few minutes before entering either location.
Group Rate Tickets
For group rate tickets, please contact guest services at 951.684.7111.
Tours
We offer pre-scheduled tours at Riverside Art Museum and The Cheech. More information on tours here.
Free and Reduced Cost Admission Programs
Free admission is available during Riverside Arts Walk (First Thursday of each month, 6 pm – 9 pm), First Sundays (First Sunday of each month, 12 pm – 5 pm and Free Summer Sundays (Every Sunday, June 1, 2025 – August 31, 2025).
RAM is proud to be a Blue Star Museum. Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Museums for All is a cooperative initiative between the Association of Children’s Museums and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences to offer a signature access program that encourages families of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits. Show us your Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) or WIC card and photo ID to receive discounted admission ($1 per person) for up to 4 people.
RAM’s participation in Museums for All is part of our mission to seek, include, and welcome all.
Tickets may not be reserved in advance via website. Please visit guest services in person at either location for admission tickets.
The National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association, together with its state and local member programs, supports and promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so every abused or neglected child in the United States can be safe, have a permanent home, and the opportunity to thrive. RAM gives FREE admission to all CASA volunteers and case children. For more information on Riverside County’s CASA program, click here.
Tickets may not be reserved in advance via our website. Please visit guest services in person at either location for admission tickets.
RAM is proud to partner with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Empire to offer free admission to all “Bigs” showing their badges and their accompanying “Littles”. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Empire opened its doors in 2013 with the help of the Orange County agency, recognizing the mentoring void in the region. Serving more than 600 children each year in the metro regions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Empire has quality mentoring models that are changing lives of children in the region. For more information, click here.
Tickets cannot be reserved in advance via our online ticketing portal. Please visit guest services in person at either location for admission tickets.
RAM is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM) Association®, a network of over 1200 museums and galleries, historical museums and societies, botanical gardens, children’s museums, and zoos located across the United States and Canada. Present your NARM identification to receive reciprocal membership benefits at Riverside Art Museum.
RAM is proud to be part of Bank of America’s Museums on Us program.
Visitors may show their Bank of America or Merrill Lynch debit/credit card and photo ID on the first full weekend of each month to receive free admission. Tickets may not be reserved on our website. Please visit guest services in person for admission tickets.
Altura Credit Union has partnered with The Cheech and released a debit card design, featuring the work of CiCi Segura Gonzales. Visitors with the card will have unlimited admission to The Cheech (3581 Mission Inn Ave) and the Riverside Art Museum (3425 Mission Inn Ave), plus entry with an additional guest.
Tickets may not be reserved via our website. Please visit guest services in person at either location for admission tickets.
Parking Information
Accessible parking is available at both locations in our visitor parking lots. Ramp access is located in the back of Riverside Art Museum and facing Orange Street at The Cheech.
Metered street and lot parking is available along Mission Inn Ave. Click here for more info about parking and a map of parking areas located in downtown.
Public Transportation Information
Metrolink is proud to serve as the LINK between six Southern California counties and the Riverside Art Museum/The Cheech, with safe, seamless and reliable train transportation.
To enhance equity in public transportation, the Mobility-4-All program offers eligible customers a 50% discount on any Metrolink ticket or pass with a valid California Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. Learn more here.
To reach the Riverside Art Museum/Cheech Marin Center, take the Metrolink Riverside Line, 91 Perris Valley or Inland Empire-Orange County Line trains to the Riverside-Downtown station and walk .05 miles (about 10 minutes) to the museums. Directions and itineraries from the station are provided for The Cheech Marin Center and Riverside Art Museum via metrolinktrains.com.
RTA provides both local and regional services throughout the region with 32 local routes, three CommuterLink express routes, on-demand GoMicro microtransit service and Dial-A-Ride services using 277 vehicles. In the cities of Corona, Beaumont and Banning, RTA coordinates regional services with municipal transit systems. In Riverside, RTA coordinates with the city’s Riverside Special Services, which provides ADA complementary service to RTA’s fixed-route services.
Visit riversidetransit.com for more information, including schedules and routes, GoMobile app and promotions.
OMNITRANS is the public transit agency serving the San Bernardino Valley, providing safe, reliable, affordable, friendly and environmentally responsible transportation. Omnitrans currently operates local and express bus routes, sbX bus rapid transit service, and Access, a paratransit service for the disabled. More information on schedules, routes and fares to Riverside here.