The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii's only museum devoted to contemporary art, will join museums across America participating in Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day, Sept. 26.

Free admission cards admitting the bearer and one guest free of charge will be available in the September 2009 issue of Smithsonian Magazine or downloaded from www.smithsonianmagazine.com/museumday later this summer.

Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day celebrates the country's cultural offerings across the nation.

Last year more than 450 museums and cultural institutions nationwide participated.

The complete list of participating museums across the nation will be available in August at www.smithsonianmagazine.com.

The Museum Day Admission Card is good for one-day use only on Sept. 26, at TCM or other participating museums in Hawaii and across the nation. The admission card will be collected upon entry and is redeemable for general admission for the presenter and one guest.

Only one admission card per household is allowed. No rain checks will be offered.

On view at TCM's Makiki Heights galleries on September 26, 2009 will be Yoshihiro Suda, an exhibition of exquisitely fragile wood-carved flora. Well-known in Japan and Europe, the TCM exhibition is Suda's second solo museum exhibition in the United States. Yoshihiro Suda is organized by TCM and curated by James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Collections.