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Tweens can use circuitry to electrify conversation hearts, chemistry to grow your heart or solidify your love with heart-shaped crystals. For ages 9-13, along with their parents. Registration required.
Event cost: Free
Event time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Feb. 6, 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.Â
Event cost: Non-members: $14/ages 13-plus, $10.50/ages 2-12, free/under 2 and...
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
Families can immerse themselves in a variety of scientifically jolly ologies with engaging exhibits and interactive workshops. The experience includes Entomology, Microbiology, Paleontology, Geology, Anthropology, Biology, Cosmology, Zoology, Rheology, Robotics, Engineering, Physics and more.Â
Event cost: Free w/general admission
Event time: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 26-29,...
Families can join Cranbrook Institute of Science and the Cranbrook Art Museum for a joint Winter Solstice Celebration. Get access to both museums. Enjoy a solstice display, minerals in the dark, lantern lit parade, Christmas carols, shadow puppets, seasonal snacks and more. Pre-registration required.Â
Event cost: $10/non-members, free/members
Event time: 1-7...
This year's STEAM Faire will include more than 20 hands-on activities and interactive booths full of projects. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration required.
Event cost: Free
Event time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 16, 2024
STENfest at STEMfest at will offer hands-on science demonstrations including some to take home. Some activities include making slime, making a lava lamp, creating Polyurethane foam, creating chromatography flowers and more.
Event cost: Free
Event time: 2-4 p.m. Nov. 9, 2024
Join The War Memorial for the next installment of their new Second Saturdays Series. There will be stationed STEM activities and an onstage performance by Mad Science at 10:15 a.m. Also, free coffee for the adults.Â
Event cost: $10/child, free/adults
Event time: 9-11 a.m. Nov. 9, 2024
Explore the life, history and science of one of the greatest mathematicians and scientists of all time, Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.E.). This traveling exhibit features more than 60 hands-on inventions and exhibits.
Event cost: $7-$8/adults, $5-$6/seniors 62+ and kids 2-12, free for kids under 2. This cost is in addition to...
Ages 5 and can enjoy a camping event at Cranbrook Institute of Science to witness the Perseid Meteor Shower. Snacks and breakfast will be provided along with hands-on activities, access to the Observatory and a late-night movie. Advanced registration required.
Event cost: $106/member, $125/non-member
Event time: 6:45 p.m. Saturday-8 a.m. Sunday,...
Ages 6-10 and their families can discover the wonders of the night sky at this event. Learn about constellations and how to identify these stellar formations. Each participant will receive their own star wheel to take home.
Event cost: $7/child
Event time: 11 a.m.-noon Aug. 10, 2024