Getting tickets to the National Museum of African American History and Culture may feel like winning the lottery.

The museum opened September 24, 2016 with much pageantry and fanfare after years of planning and delays. The celebratory events included a speech and visit by President and Mrs. Obama as well as a joint presentation by an Asheville resident, Rev. Clark Olsen. Olsen and Ga. Rep. John Lewis, who were companions in the “Bloody Sunday” March 9, 1965 march to Selma, AL, spoke jointly at the Museum’s opening. Olsen, a Unitarian-Universalist minister, was walking with his colleague Rev. James Reeb to hear Dr. King when Reeb was brutally murdered by white supremacists.

When the museum was nearing the opening, administrators expected 7,500 visitors daily. Instead, 30,000 people have tried to get in some days, with a maximum admission of approximately 8,000 daily. Tickets have “sold out” through March 2017.

Tickets to the museum are not supposed to be sold since they are free. It’s actually illegal in Washington D.C. to attempt to sell them, but that hasn’t stopped people from listing the passes on eBay for as much as $200 for two. The Smithsonian has even warned people not to get duped by counterfeit tickets.

However, there may be a ray of hope. As of November 14, the museum will offer more walk-up passes during the week. (Regular timed tickets will still be needed for weekend access). It may be your only opportunity to walk through Heritage Hall, see artifacts from the slave trade, or to have a seat in the Oprah Winfrey Theater this year.

Museum officials said how many walk-ins passes they grant will depend on the crowds. So far, crowds have been consistently huge. In a typical museum, visitors spend about two hours browsing around, and most people are staying close to six hours at the museum. The museum has five floors, 12 exhibitions, and 3,000 objects on display.

So what do you do if you want to tour the museum? Go to the museum website to try for a 2017 pass. The museum hopes to release the next passes the last of March, which will run from April through June 2017.