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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.
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.
Museums at the University of Michigan. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; Edit; View history; ... List of museums and collections at the ...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with 94,000 sq ft (8,700 m 2). Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War , Alumni Memorial Hall originally housed University of Michigan's Alumni office ...
Pages in category "University museums in Michigan" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Check out the Michigan History Museum in Lansing or the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson. Both museums showcase the rich history of our state and the people, places, and things that make it so special.
The university's natural history collections began in 1837, and the first formal museum for their exhibit was established in 1881. In 1925, the state legislature appropriated $900,000 (equivalent to $12,500,000 in 2023) for the construction of a new museum building, which would house researchers' offices and public exhibits.
Michigan State University Bug House, East Lansing; Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing; Michigan Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum, Grass Lake; Museum of Cultural & Natural History, Mount Pleasant; Ottawa Visitor Center, Watersmeet; Spirit of the Woods Museum, Elk Rapids; University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor