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Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
In 2003, the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum was the cultural organization selected to receive the Governor's Award for Arts and Culture from former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. [40] In 2011, then-Governor Rick Snyder awarded the museum with the Reinventing Michigan Award in recognition of its "innovative education methods."
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.
Flint Children's Museum: Flint: Michigan: Forever Curious Children's Museum: Fennville: Michigan: Fort Worth Museum of Science and History: Fort Worth: Texas: First children's museum in Texas; founded in 1941 Galveston Children's Museum: Galveston: Texas: Located on Moody Mansion; founded in 2012 Garden State Discovery Museum: Cherry Hill: New ...
The Flint Institute of Arts, also called FIA, is located in the Flint Cultural Center in Flint, Michigan.The second largest art museum in Michigan, it offers exhibitions, interpretive programs, film screenings, concerts, lectures, family events and educational outreach programs to people of various ages, serving over 160,000 adults and children a year.
The museum is largely aimed at families, and focuses on science, technology, and history. The museum is operated by Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and admission to the facility is free. [1] The museum's collection dates to an 1881 gift to the Kalamazoo School Board of corals, shells, and rocks from Horace M. Peck, a local banker.
The Sloan Museum of Discovery is a nonprofit, public hands-on and interactive discovery museum located within the Flint Cultural Center in Flint, Michigan.The museum has four interactive primary galleries, including a hands-on earth sciences hall, an early childhood learning gallery, a local history gallery focusing on Genesee County and the Flint area, and an 11,000 square foot vehicle ...
During the museum's first year of operation, it welcomed 25,000 guests. Children and adults both expressed great curiosity and enthusiasm, which pushed the museum to accelerate its expansion plans. Four years later, the museum opened the third and fourth floors of the firehouse with the help of a Kresge Foundation Challenge Grant. In 1993, the ...