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Families can celebrate creativity at Cranbrook Art Museum’s Spring Family Festival. Activities include Pop Art flower-making, sharing a wish on the spring woodlands community mural in the galleries, bracelet-making, a Pop Karaoke Concert, squeegee painting in the Art Lab and more. Beverages and snack boxes are available to purchase...
Enjoy an electricity stage show, dive into hands-on fun exploring static electricity, circuits, and the hair-raising Van de Graaff generator, build a motor to take home, power lights with a hand crank and more. For ages 8-plus. Registration required by Feb. 26.
Event cost: $17/members, $20/non-members
Event time: 1-3 p.m. March...
Families can come by Cranbrook Art Museum for a special afternoon of poetry in partnership with InsideOut Literary Arts. Hear poetry readings by some of Detroit's finest poets including Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer, a Q&A with the poets and an open mic opportunity.
Event cost: Free w/museum admission; free/ages...
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science on for their Chemical Reactions in Action Family Workshop. See demonstrations, experiments and activities. Recommended for ages 6-plus. Registration required by Feb. 19.
Event cost: $17/members, $20/non-members
Event time: 1-3 p.m. Feb. 22, 2025
Ages 3-5 years old are invited to the museum on fourth Fridays for wildly creative activities and a visit to the museum. Jan. 24 will be about exploring textures and weaving. Feb. 28 will be about exploring nature and weather. Pre-registration is required.
Event cost: $10/adult admission, free/ages 12 and...
Families can enjoy a drop-in workshop at the DIA. Make your own lion or dragon face out of tag board, paper, and raffia.
Event cost: Free w/museum admission; Free for all Macomb, Oakland and Wayne County residents
Event times: Noon-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 25-26, 2025
This traveling exhibit allows visitors to craft toy vehicles and put them through different challenges in the world of trial and error.
Event cost: Free w/museum admission
Event time: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays, Jan. 16-April 2025
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science, astronomers and members of the Warren Astronomical Society as they guide you through a galactic planetary alignment. This event features cosmic chats, close-up views of the celestial event and more. Pre-registration is recommended.
Event cost: Non-members: $14/ages 13-plus, $10.50/ages 2-12, free/under 2 and...
Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep: Shear Genius! is a hands-on exhibit designed for ages 3-9. Visitors will step into the environments of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep such as 62 West Wallaby Street and Mossy Bottom Farm. See props from the film, learn about the...
Explore Black History at The Henry Ford through musical, dramatic and dance performances, through to With Liberty and Justice for All exhibit and more all month long.
Event cost: Free w/museum admission
Event times: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 1-28, 2025
Come out to U-M Museum of Natural History to meet scientists of color and learn about their research through interactive tabletop activities.
Event cost: Free
Event time: Noon-3 p.m. Jan. 20, 2024
The theme this year is, “The Strength to Dream.” Families can enjoy an MLK event that features educational workshops and programming, lecture, film and a prayer breakfast.
Event cost: Free with museum admission
Event time: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 20, 2025
