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During the late 1960s the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association began a project to construct a new dark sky observatory in the Grand Rapids area. A site was leased to them on Kissing Rock Hill and the James C. Veen Observatory was constructed by the Association members, with some support from the Public Museum and Chaffee Planetarium ...
The Grand Rapids Public Museum, located on the bank of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is among the oldest history museums in the United States. It was founded in 1854 as the "Grand Rapids Lyceum of Natural History". [1] In 1971, the Public Museum became the first museum to be accredited by the American Association of ...
Bodies: The Exhibition is an exhibition showcasing human bodies that have been preserved through a process called plastination and dissected to display bodily systems. [1] It opened in Tampa, Florida on August 20, 2005. [2] It is similar to, though not affiliated with, the exhibition Body Worlds (which opened in 1995). The exhibit displays ...
The 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m 2) two-story triangular museum was designed by Marvin DeWinter Associates and built at a cost of $11 million. The museum is located in a 20-acre (8.1 ha) park complex that includes the Grand Rapids Public Museum along the west bank of the Grand River in
Grand Rapids Art Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Art: Renaissance to Modern art, with strength in European and American 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture Grand Rapids Children's Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Children's: website: Grand Rapids Public Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Local history ...
Moody Planetarium [34] Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock; Noble Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, Fort Worth; The Planetarium at UT Arlington, Arlington; Scobee Planetarium, San Antonio College, San Antonio; The Stephen F. Austin Planetarium at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture and sculpture.
Van Andel Institute is located on the Grand Rapids Medical Mile. Its 400,000 square foot building [49] was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and was constructed in two phases; [50] the first phase was completed in 2000 [51] and second phase opened in December 2009. [52]