GOLDENDALE - Residents of Okanogan and Ferry counties can get into Maryhill Museum of Art for free on May 30-31.
     Free county weekends are offered, as are free admission passes available through libraries.
     Throughout Maryhill's season, the museum sets aside one weekend each month to offer free admission to residents of select counties in Oregon and Washington. Residents must present a driver's license to receive free admission, according to a Maryhill announcement.
     "While this is the 17th year the museum has offered this incentive to its neighbors, it is especially timely now that many people are looking at ways to trim household budgets," according to the announcement.
     Free admission is offered this weekend, April 18-19, to residents of Adams, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens and Whitman counties.
     May 30-31 brings free admission to residents of Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Kittitas, Okanogan and Yakima counties.
     Maryhill Museum is housed in a Beaux Arts mansion on 5,300 acres high above the Columbia River. It opened to the public in 1940.
     The museum's collection includes more than 80 works by Auguste Rodin, European and American paintings, objects d'art from the palaces of the Queen of Romania, Orthodox icons, North American Indian baskets, chess sets and the Theatre de la Mode, featuring small-scale mannequins attired in designer fashions of post-World War II France.