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The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
The Argus Museum, located on the second floor of 525 West William, Ann Arbor, Michigan, features products manufactured by the Argus camera company and tells the stories of the company, the people involved and showcases unique collections connected to Argus. The museum is housed in the Argus I Building, which was one of the facilities where ...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with 94,000 sq ft (8,700 m 2). Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War , Alumni Memorial Hall originally housed University of Michigan's Alumni office ...
Ann Arbor is the setting for much of the film The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995), as well as The Five-Year Engagement (2012). Parts of the film Jumper (2008) are set in Ann Arbor, using both footage shot locally and footage using Peterborough, Ontario as an Ann Arbor stand-in. Ann Arbor is also frequently mentioned in the television series Lost.
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum was founded in 1978, with approval from the city of Ann Arbor, as a touring collection of exhibits built by local specialists and volunteers. The museum opened at its permanent location in 1982 in the city's historic brick firehouse with 25 exhibits on two floors, one staff person, and ten volunteers.
If your hand always seems to be in pain, it could be because of “phone hand.” Treatments for phone hand include using bluetooth earbuds, phone mounts and taking breaks from phone use ...
The mural is an Ann Arbor icon, and is one of the city's most well-known pieces of public art. The work, colloquially referred to as the Bookstore Mural, was painted in 1984 by Richard Wolk [ 1 ] and was commissioned by David's Books, the building's former occupants. [ 2 ]
Both are funded by Penny W. and E. Roe Stamps. The Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series brings emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities.