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Enjoy a day of celebration with live music, snacks, refreshments, a gift wrapped Bon Bon Bon box for sale and create a bouquet of colorful fresh flowers for $15 (with the purchase of a vase).Â
Event cost: Free
Event time: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 10, 2025
Teens ages 13 and up are welcome to drop-in and hang-out during open Art Lab hours every Thursday afternoon. They'll enjoy making artist-led artmaking projects. Free materials and museum gallery admission for all teens. Pre-registration is recommended.
Event cost: Free
Event time: 4-6 p.m. April 3, 2025
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science for their Flying High Family Workshop! Explore what makes things fly, float, and glide with fun experiments using wind tunnels, fans, parachutes and gliders. Also, build your own planes and rockets to take home. For ages 6-plus. Advanced registration required by April...
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science for their Down By The Pond Family Workshop! Explore aquatic ecosystems and head to the pond to spot frogs, insects, birds, and more. For ages 6-plus. Dress for the weather. Advanced registration required by April 30.Â
Event cost: $17/member, $20/non-member
Event time: 1-3 p.m....
See one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, Taylor Swift, at this laser show at the Michigan Science Center. It brings her biggest hits to life in dazzling laser light.
Event cost: $23/person
Event time: Noon and 2 p.m. March 29-30, 2025
Spend spring break at Cranbrook Institute of Science where you'll learn about the wonders of our ecosystem with engaging hands-on activities. Over 20 local environmental organizations will be there to help.
Event cost: Free w/general admission
Event times: 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. March 26-28, 2025
Families can come out to DNR Outdoor Adventure Center for Lumberjack Days 2025, a three-day festival of fun and flannel. There will be cross-cut straw demonstrations, hands-on education tables and more.
Event cost: Free w/admission
Event time: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. March 21-23, 2025
Go on a colorful adventure throughout Cranbrook Institute of Science to collect stickers as you explore a rainbow of activities. Fill up your special activity card to win a prize.
Event cost: Free w/museum admission
Event time: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March 15, 2025
Families can explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized at U-M Museum of Natural History. Touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, discover what is necessary to become a fossil and more.
Event cost: Free
Event times: 11:30 a.m.-noon March 15-16, 22-23,...
Join Barcade Detroit for Family Day on the first Sunday of every month. There will be arcade games, food and more. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No registration required.
Event cost: Free admission
Event time: Noon-5 p.m. April 6, May 4, June 1, 2025
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science for a Dino Fossil Detectives family workshop. Activities include getting up close with real fossils, holding a mammoth tooth, shaking hands with a T. rex, creating fossil casts, taking home a fossil and more. For ages 6 and up. Registration required by...
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science for a Planet Parade and witness a breathtaking planetary alignment. Peer through the telescopes, immerse yourself in an epic 360-degree planetarium adventure and more. Also, see The Science of Archimedes exhibit for free. Pre-registration is highly recommended.Â
Event cost: $21/members, $25/non-members; Planetarium tickets...
