- The Princeton University Art Museum offers a variety of programs for adults and children, both at the museum and in area schools, hospitals, and retirement homes.
- The Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street houses the programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts, which host art exhibits, theatrical productions, dance performances, and poetry and fiction readings.
- Princeton athletic events are open to the public, some at no charge, with season tickets available for basketball, football, and ice hockey. Athletic facilities are often available to residents of the community for modest fees.
- Lake Carnegie, which is owned by the University and serves as its intercollegiate rowing facility, is a popular community recreation area, providing a site for rowing, fishing, canoeing, and ice skating.
- The Princeton University Chapel, which seats nearly 2,000 people, offers religious services, musical performances, and other special events.
- Firestone Library offers access privileges to the public for modest fees. The public is welcome, without charge, to visit the Cotsen Children’s Library, at the main entrance to the library. Also open to the public are the exhibition gallery on the first floor and the second-floor gallery. The Rare Book Room and the Theater Arts Collection may be seen after signing in at the door.
- The Peyton Hall 12-inch telescope and the FitzRandolph Observatory 36-inch telescope, respectively, offer viewing of the night sky monthly and on a periodic basis, depending on astronomical conditions.
- The Frist Campus Center is a world-class facility that offers opportunities for social and academic interactions, events, and programs. The general public uses the center’s Welcome Desk and its meeting and conference space, the Food Gallery, Café Vivian, convenience store, and Witherspoon’s ice cream/coffee shop.
- The McCarter Theatre Center—home of the Matthews Theatre and the Berlind Theatre—offers drama, music, dance, film, and other events ranging from acrobatics to mime. It also hosts the major productions of the programs in theater and dance and the annual show presented by student members of the Triangle Club.
- Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall hosts musical, dramatic, and other performances, most of them open to the public, and most for a fee.
- Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall hosts campus musical groups throughout the year, which are sponsored by the Friends of Princeton Music.
- Theatre Intime, a student-run facility, schedules dramatic productions, dance performances, and comedy shows throughout the academic year at Hamilton-Murray Theater. This theater is used in the summer by Princeton Summer Theater for highly acclaimed productions, as well as special shows for children.
