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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 Whaley Historic House Museum, also known as the Robert J. Whaley House, is a historic house, now converted to a museum, located in Flint, Michigan. The house was listed as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, now the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University; Labor Museum & Learning Center, Flint [78] Lund's Scenic Garden, Maple City, Michigan, closed in November, 1987 [79]
The Flint Cultural Center (FCC) is a campus of cultural, scientific, and artistic institutes located in Flint, Michigan, United States.The institutions located on the grounds of the FCC are the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, Sloan Museum, [1] Gloria Coles Flint Public Library, Buick Gallery & Research Center, Robert T. Longway Planetarium, Whiting Auditorium, and Flint ...
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 ...
Crossroads Village is a living history museum in Genesee County, Michigan, near Flint. It is operated by the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission alongside the Huckleberry Railroad. Initially proposed as a Flint River recreational area and a farm museum, it was opened as a historical village in 1976.
He was also involved in the community, serving as Flint's mayor in 1913, 1914, and 1918, and contributed greatly to the community through his philanthropic foundation. [2] In 1916, [3] Mott and his wife Ethel Culbert Harding (whom he had married in 1903), decided to build a home for their family. They purchased 26 acres from J. D. Dort and 38 ...
In 1980, a hands-on antiques and crafts exhibit for children was installed at Flint's Sloan Museum. By 1986, the exhibit had grown so significantly that, with community support and additional grants, the Flint Children's Museum's first permanent location was established at NorthBank Center in downtown Flint, operating there for 7 years.