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 that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Name | Location | County | Region | Type | Summary | |
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Geology | Located on the campus of Michigan Technological University, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park, state minerals | |||||
Ontonagon | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Mining | Underground tours of a preserved copper mine | |||
Aerospace | Formerly the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, part aviation museum and part amusement park, includes Michigan Space Science Center, simulators, historic airplanes, aviation exhibits, Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame | |||||
Alberta Village Museum | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Open-air | website, Ford's sawmill village & logging industry | |||
Macomb | Multiple | website, changing exhibits of art, science, culture and history, formerly Macomb Cultural Center, part of Macomb Community College | ||||
Historic house | Private residence of noted 20th-century architect Alden B. Dow | |||||
Midland | Midland | Flint/Tri-Cities | Multiple | Science gallery and gallery space featuring changing visual art and science exhibitions; part of the Midland Center for the Arts | ||
Alden Depot Park and Museum | Northern Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Helena Township Historical Society[1] | |||
Alger County Heritage Center | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Includes American Fur Company log cabin furnished for the 1830s[2] | |||
Algonac Clay Historical Society Museum | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, exhibits on local cultural and maritime history, also operates the Clay Township Log Cabin | ||
Allegan Old Jail Museum | West Michigan | Historic house | Operated by the Allegan County Historical Society, jail and Victorian sheriff's house[3] | |||
Allen House Museum | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | website, operated by the Bad Axe Historical Society, 1902 Dutch colonial home | |||
All Around the African World Museum | African American | [4] | ||||
Allen Park Historical Museum | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website[5] | |||
Alpine Township Historical Museum | West Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Alpine Township Historical Commission, 1860 former town hall[6] | |||
Amasa Historical Society Museum | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | [7] | |||
Central Michigan | Magic | Magical paraphernalia and illusions, including devices that once belonged to magician Harry Blackstone, Sr. | ||||
Northern Michigan | Native American | Native American artifacts | ||||
Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Science | ||||
Antique Toy & Firehouse Museum | Flint/Tri-Cities | Toy | website, over 60 motorized fire trucks, over 12,000 antique and collectible toys, particularly fire, police and rescue vehicles | |||
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Art | Community art center, exhibitions of local, national and international artists | |||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Ethnic | Arab civilization, Arab experience in America | |||
Arcadia Historical Museum | Northern Michigan | Local history | website | |||
Arenac County Historical Museum | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Arenac County Historical Society | |||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Photography | |||
Calhoun | West Michigan | Art | website, hosts 10-12 varied shows each year, including annual Michigan Artist Competition exhibition | |||
Astor House Museum | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, antique dolls, toys, American Indian artifacts, mining and fishing artifacts | |||
Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Located in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, operated by the National Park Service | |||
Au Sable-Oscoda Historical Museum | Northern Michigan | Local history | website | |||
Dearborn | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Hall of fame | Notable figures in the development of the automobile industry | ||
Averill Historical Museum of Ada | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Ada Historical Society | |||
Bammert Blacksmith Shop | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Technology | website, tools & equipment, operated by the Keweenaw County Historical Society; participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | ||
Baraga County Historical Museum | Baraga | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Baraga County Historical Society | ||
Barryton Area Museum | Mecosta | West Michigan | Local history | One room schoolhouse and local history museum[8] | ||
Bay City | Bay | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website | ||
Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center | Marquette | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, located in 105 Cohodas Hall at Northern Michigan University, history and culture of the Upper Peninsula | |
Beaver Island Historical Society Museums | Northern Michigan | Multiple | website, includes Old Mormon Print Shop Museum of local history, the Maritime Museum about fishing on the island, and Protar Home, a historic log cabin | |||
Bellaire Historical Museum | Antrim | Northern Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Bellaire Area Historical Society in the lower level of the Bellaire Community Hall[9] | ||
Belleville Area Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Northern Michigan | Local history | website | ||||
Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website | ||||
Berkley Historical Museum | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, located in the old Fire Hall at City Hall | |||
Bernard Historical Museum | West Michigan | Open-air | website, operated by the Bernard Historical Society, includes Bernard Hospital, Brown School, Country Store, Seamstress Cottage, Little House, Blacksmith Shop, Implement Building, Windmill | |||
Bessemer Historical Society Museum | Gogebic | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Northern Michigan | Multiple | website, art, science, natural history, history, planetarium; also known as Jesse Besser Museum. Contains Fishing Tug Katherine V, last extant wooden Great Lakes fishing tug. The Besser Museum Sky Theater | ||||
Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association | ||||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Art | website, regional art center, four galleries showcase contemporary art from the Midwest and beyond | |||
Birmingham Historical Museum & Park | Birmingham | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | website, features the 1822 John West Hunter House, decorated for the period 1820–1880, and the 1928 Allen House with exhibits on local history | |
Central Michigan | Historic house | website, 1880s Italianate mansion, owned and operated by the Ionia County Historical Society, includes a museum of local Ionia history | ||||
Bottle-Cap Museum | Northern Michigan | Ephemera | website, Coca-Cola memorabilia inside Dawson and Stevens Classic 50's Diner | |||
Bowne Township Historical Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Bowne Twp. Historical Commission, also Bowne Center School | ||
Boyne City Historical Museum | Charlevoix | Northern Michigan | Local history | [10] | ||
Brethren Heritage Museum | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Local history | Open by appointment with the Brethren Heritage Association[11] [12] | ||
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | School | Operated by the Warren Historical Society, late 19th-century one-room school | |||
Kent | West Michigan | Local history | ||||
Caledonia Historical Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Caledonia Historical Society | ||
Call of the Wild & Bavarian Falls Park | Northern Michigan | Natural history | website, museum with mounted animal displays, hands-on learning center and family amusement park | |||
Northern Michigan | Maritime | Part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, exhibit of Great Lakes small craft | ||||
Cannon Historical Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Cannon Township Historical Society[13] | ||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | History | Local history, housed in a historic one room schoolhouse | |||
Capac Historical Society Museum | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, collections include the Kempf Model City (a mechanical city, 40feet long and 4feet wide), also G.T. RR Caboose | ||
Marshall | Calhoun | West Michigan | School | website, operated by the Marshall Historical Society, 19th-century schoolhouse, toy displays, open by appointment | ||
West Michigan | Historic house | Operated by the Holland Museum, 19th-century Victorian home of Holland's first mayor and a restored Dutch settler's home | ||||
Card Wildlife Education Center | Mecosta | Northern Michigan | Natural history | website, part of Ferris State University, wildlife dioramas | ||
Northern Michigan | Natural history | Wildlife dioramas, history of hunting and fishing in Michigan | ||||
St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Local history | History, pre-history and culture of the Blue Water area, includes maritime exhibits, musical instrument collection, art, log cabin | |||
Art | website, also W.R. Monroe Museum is adjacent, changing exhibits of arts, nature, science and history | |||||
Houghton | Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Multiple | Rotating exhibits about local history, natural history, science and culture | ||
Caseville Historical Society Museum | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website | ||
Charlevoix | Northern Michigan | Historic house | 1918 castle-style house and gardens, open for tours | |||
Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | Operated by the Historical Society of Saginaw County | ||||
Catholic Heritage Museum | Saginaw | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Religious | Artifacts of the churches of the Saginaw Catholic Diocese[14] | |
Cedar Springs Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Cedar Springs Historical Society in the 19th-century one-room Payne School | ||
Celery Flats Interpretive Center | Kalamazoo | West Michigan | Agriculture | Celery cultivation and Dutch immigration, located in Portage Creek Bicentennial Park[15] [16] | ||
Jackson | Central Michigan | Prison | Prison exhibit within the walls of an operating penitentiary | |||
Eagle Harbor Township | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Open-air | Historic mining village, operated by the Keweenaw County Historical Society; participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | ||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | African American | African American cultural history and important figures | |||
Barry | West Michigan | Open-air | Recreated typical late 19th- to early 20th-century village | |||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Northern Michigan | Multiple | website, operated by the History Center of Cheboygan County, includes log cabin, 1882 sheriff residence with attached jail cells, jail addition built in 1912–14, Spies Heritage Hall with local history exhibits | ||||
Chelsea Historical Museum | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Chelsea Area Historical Society | ||
Chesaning Area Historical Museum | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Chesaning Area Historical Society | ||
Midland | Midland | Flint/Tri-Cities | Nature center | Visitor center with natural history and Native American exhibits, Homestead Farm and Log Schoolhouse, wigwam, arboretum, trails | ||
Crawford | Northern Michigan | History | Located in North Higgins Lake State Park and interpreted in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources | |||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Clarkston Community Historical Society | |||
Clawson Historical Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Mining | Mining artifacts, minerals, exhibits | ||||
Clinton Township Historical Village Museum | Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | website | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Mid 19th-century period farm and house | ||
Coe House Museum | Jackson | Central Michigan | Historic house | 19th-century Victorian house, operated by the Grass Lake Historical Society[17] | ||
Emmet | Northern Michigan | Living | Fortified fur-trading village as it appeared in the 1770s | |||
Conklin Antique Reed Organ Museum | Central Michigan | Multiple | website, operated by the Hanover-Horton Area Historical Society, local history, antique reed organ collection | |||
Ottawa | West Michigan | Agriculture | website, farming, agriculture and rural living | |||
Coopersville | Ottawa | West Michigan | Local history | |||
Copper Harbor Lighthouse | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Lighthouse and maritime museum located within Fort Wilkins Historic State Park | ||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Copper Range Historical Society,[18] participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Mining | website, copper mining and the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Mining | Largest steam-driven pumping engine built in the US, operated by the Menominee Range Historical Foundation | ||||
Corunna Historical Village | Central Michigan | Open-air | website, operated by the Corunna Historical Commission, open only four times a year | |||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Art | Contemporary art, part of the Cranbrook Academy of Art | |||
Bloomfield Hills | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | 1908 English Arts and Crafts-style mansion and 40acres of gardens | ||
Bloomfield Hills | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Natural history | Natural history, science, planetarium, nature center | ||
Crawford County Historical Museum | Grayling | Crawford | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Crawford County Historical Society in an 1882 depot | |
Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Crisp Point Light Historical Society | ||||
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Macomb County Historical Society, late Victorian home-life experience | |||
Crooked Tree Arts Center | Emmet | Northern Michigan | Art | website, visual and performing arts center | ||
Cheboygan | Northern Michigan | Religious | Catholic shrine with museum of dolls dressed in various nun's habits | |||
Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Living | website, over 35 buildings showing late 19th-century small village life, operated by the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission; site of Huckleberry Railroad | |||
Curious Kids' Museum | West Michigan | Children's | website | |||
Shiawassee | Central Michigan | Historic house | Home of novelist and conservationist James Oliver Curwood | |||
Davis Brothers Farm Shop Museum | Flint/Tri-Cities | Agriculture | website, operated by the Lapeer County Historical Society, farm equipment, exhibits and demonstrations | |||
Davison Area Historical Museum | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Davison Area Historical Society | ||
Dearborn | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Historic houses | Includes Commandant's Quarters and McFadden-Ross House | ||
Deckerville Historical Museum | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | [19] | |||
Dee Stadium Hockey History Museum | Houghton | Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Sports | History of the site and area ice hockey, located in the Kenner Ruohonen Memorial History Room, open in the summer | |
Dekker Huis/ Zeeland Museum | Ottawa | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Zeeland Historical Society | ||
Copper Harbor | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Mining | Copper mine tours and exhibits | ||
Delta County Historical Museum | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Delta County Historical Society, located next to Sand Point Light | |||
Northern Michigan | Art | Part of Northwestern Michigan College, features an Inuit art collection | ||||
Ottawa | West Michigan | Transportation | website, operated by the Tri-Cities Historical Museum of Grand Haven, housed in a restored 1870s railroad depot, exhibits on maritime, railroad and land transportation | |||
Depot Museum | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | Operated by the Clio Historical Association[20] | ||
Depot Museum & Customs House | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
DeTour Passage Historical Museum | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Includes clothing, pictures, record books, maritime and Native American artifacts[21] [22] | |||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Detroit Historical Society, includes a 19th-century street scene, local businesses including automobile companies, leaders, culture and heritage | ||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Art | American and European paintings, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts from the 18th century, 19th century, and 20th century, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Islamic, African and Asian art | ||
Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Art | website, part or the Art and Design Department at Northern Michigan University | |||
Dexter Area Museum | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Dexter Area Historical Society in a late 19th-century former church | ||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Maritime | Located at Belle Isle Park in the SS William Clay Ford Pilot House, operated by the Detroit Historical Society | ||
West Michigan | Local history | website, formerly the Museum at Southwestern Michigan College, history of Dowagiac, Cass County and Sister Lakes | ||||
Drake Memorial House | Central Michigan | Historic house | website, operated by the Breckenridge-Wheeler Area Historical Society | |||
Drummond Island Historical Museum | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | [23] | ||
Shiawassee | Central Michigan | Railroad | Also known as Michigan Railroad History Museum, trains in WW II, Wallace Circus train wreck, Presidential whistle stops in Durand, model trains | |||
Eagle Harbor Township | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | Operated by the Keweenaw County Historical Society, includes boat and life-saving equipment | ||
Eagle Harbor Township | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Multiple | Keweenaw County Historical Society operates the lighthouse as a museum, and also operates other museums at the site, including the Maritime Museum, mining, Commercial Fishing Museum and Keweenaw History Museum; participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | ||
Eagle River Museum | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Keweenaw County Historical Society, themes include the Cliff Mine, the towns of Eagle River and Phoenix, the Phoenix mine, and the former amusement area known as Crestview | ||
East Jordan Portside Art and Historical Society Museum | Charlevoix | Northern Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Eaton County's Museum at Courthouse Square | Central Michigan | History | website, local history, Native American artifacts, courthouse exhibits | |||
Eby Log Cabin | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Open during the Monroe County Fair, operated by the Monroe County Historical Society[24] [25] | |||
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Mansion with fine and decorative arts, many outbuildings and gardens on 87acres | |||
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery | Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Art | website, part of Wayne State University | |
Ingham | Central Michigan | Art | Part of Michigan State University, contemporary art | |||
Antrim | Northern Michigan | Local history | operated by the Elk Rapids Area Historical Society in a former church | |||
Jackson | Central Michigan | Multiple | website, wildlife art, local history, changing art exhibits, 19th-century Ella Sharp House and interpretive center, a one-room schoolhouse, log house and tower barn | |||
Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Open-air | website, complex includes main museum, school house, 1911 Hose House, barn, gas station | |||
Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Native American | History and culture of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians | |||
Engine House No. 5 Museum | Ottawa | West Michigan | Firefighting | website | ||
Fallasburg Historical Village | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Fallasburg Historical Society, includes the Fallasburg Bridge, a schoolhouse, village cemetery, the Fallasburg Historical Museum and the Misner House Museum | ||
Delta | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Living | Late Victorian life | |||
Allegan | West Michigan | Historic house | Mid 20th-century mansion | |||
Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | Operated by the Fenton Historical Society | |||
Ferndale Historical Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Ferndale Historical Society | ||
Ferris State University Fine Art Gallery | Big Rapids | Mecosta | Northern Michigan | Art | website | |
Fife Lake Area Historical Museum | Grand Traverse | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Fife Lake Area Historical Society | ||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Art | Part of Finlandia University, Finnish art gallery, culture,[26] participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Fire Barn Museum | West Michigan | Firefighting | website, operated by Lakeshore Museum Center, firefighting equipment, gear | |||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Church | Exhibits about church architecture and history, also houses Underground Railroad Living Museum, a storytelling experience | ||
Flat River Historical Museum | Montcalm | Central Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Flat River Historical Society | ||
Flat Rock Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Flat Rock Historical Society | ||
Flint | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Children's | |||
Flint | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Art | Collections of American, European, Native American, African, and Asian art including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts | ||
Florence B. Dearing Museum | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Hartland Area Historical Society | |||
Gratiot | Central Michigan | Art | website, part of Alma College | |||
Flushing Depot Museum | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Flushing Area Historical Society | ||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Automotive | Birthplace of the Ford Model T and the world's oldest car factory building open to the public (built 1904) | ||
Forever Curious Children's Museum | West Michigan | Children's | website, formerly known as Allegan County Children's Museum, trying to open a location in Allegan | |||
Forsyth Township Historical Museum | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Forsyth Township Historical Society[27] | ||
Fort de Buade Museum | St. Ignace | Mackinac | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Native American | website, specializes in Native American objects of the pre-contact period, through the eras of the French, British and Americans of the area | |
Port Huron | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Lighthouse | Tours operated through Port Huron Museum | ||
Mackinac | Northern Michigan | Fort | 14 original buildings and military exhibits, costumed interpreters | |||
Berrien | West Michigan | Local history | Located in the carriage house of the Henry A. Chapin House, exhibits include Fort St. Joseph, the Underground Railroad in southern Michigan, railroads in Niles' history, Lakota Indian collection | |||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Fort | Includes 1848 limestone barracks building, 1845 Star Fort, Commanding Officers house, Spanish–American War guard house and the Tuskegee Airmen Museum | ||
Copper Harbor | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Fort | 19 restored buildings, costumed interpreters, copper mining sites and lighthouse, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | ||
Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Forty Mile Point Lighthouse Society | ||||
Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Frankenmuth Historical Association | |||
Franklin Historical Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Franklin Historic Society | ||
Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | Home of Michigan politician Frank Murphy | |||
Kent | West Michigan | Art | Botanical gardens with a conservatory, sculpture park and museum with over 170 sculptures by artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jonathan Borofsky, Alexander Calder, Anthony Gormley, Mark di Suvero, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Marshall Fredericks, Arnaldo Pomodoro and Kenneth Snelson | |||
Gaines Township Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | Historic one-room school, operated by the Gaines Charter Township Historical Society[28] | ||
Galesburg Historical Museum | Kalamazoo | West Michigan | Local history | [29] [30] | ||
Ganton Art Gallery | Jackson | Central Michigan | Art | website, part of Spring Harbor University | ||
Calhoun | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Albion Historical Society, Victorian house displays antique tools, artifacts, pictures and furniture | |||
Chelsea | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Natural history | Geology and area habitats | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Presidential library | Library about Gerald R. Ford | ||
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Biographical | Museum about Gerald R. Ford | ||
Gibraltar Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Muskegon | West Michigan | Natural history | Visitor center for Hoffmaster State Park | |||
Barry | West Michigan | Automotive | Restored historic barns exhibiting nearly 200 vehicles spanning more than 100 years of automotive heritage | |||
Gitchee Gumee Museum | Grand Marais | Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Natural history | website, agates and minerals, local history | |
Gladwin County Historical Museum | Northern Michigan | Open-air | website, includes 2 restored cabins and a schoolhouse, farm and blacksmith tools, furniture, dishes, clothing, books, photos, operated by the Gladwin County Historical Society | |||
Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Mid 19th-century house | ||||
Calhoun | West Michigan | Historic house | Operated by the Mary Marshall Chapter D.A.R., mid-19th-century Greek Revival mansion built in anticipation that Marshall would become the State Capital of Michigan | |||
Governor Warner Mansion | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | website, Victorian Italianate mansion and gardens, home of Fred M. Warner | ||
Grand Army of the Republic Hall | Marshall | Calhoun | West Michigan | Military | website, operated by the Marshall Historical Society, Civil War artifacts, local history | |
Grand Blanc Heritage Museum | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Grand Blanc Heritage Association | ||
Grand Ledge Area Historical Society Museum | Eaton | Central Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Art | Renaissance to Modern art, with strength in European and American 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture | ||
Grand Rapids Children's Museum | Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Children's | website | |
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | Includes a carousel and planetarium | ||
Grand Traverse Lighthouse | Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Lighthouse and maritime museum located within Leelanau State Park | ||
Grand Valley State University Art Galleries | Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Art | website, six galleries in both Grand Rapids and Allendale | |
Grattan Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Grattan Historical Society | ||
Great Lakes Children's Museum | Traverse City | Grand Traverse | Northern Michigan | Children's | website | |
Rogers City | Presque Isle | Northern Michigan | Maritime | website, local maritime history from Native American traders to 21st century captains, includes Great Lakes Maritime Hall of Fame | ||
Alpena | Alpena | Northern Michigan | Maritime | Headquarters for the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, features exhibits on shipwrecks and the Great Lakes | ||
East Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Art | Part of Michigan State University, quilts as art and history | ||
Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | Operated by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, artifacts retrieved from local shipwrecks, also includes lighthouse keeper's quarters for Whitefish Point Light | |||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | 1841 Greek Revival farmhouse and outbuildings on 92acres | |||
Harbor Beach | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | 19th-century house, barn and school | ||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Military | ||||
Central Michigan | Historic house | 19th-century Victorian mansion | ||||
Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Milan Area Historical Society | |||
Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Historic house | website, operated by Lakeshore Museum Center, Charles H. Hackley House and Hume House, 1890s period Victorian houses | ||
Hadley House Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by Holly Historical Society | ||
Lapeer | Flint/Tri-Cities | Mill | Operated by the Hadley Township Historical Society | |||
Hamburg Historical Museum | Livingston | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Hammond House Museum | Central Michigan | Historic house | 19th-century house, operated by the Union City Historical Society[31] | |||
Baraga | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Open-air | Self-sufficient Finnish homestead farm, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Harbor Springs History Museum | Emmet | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society | ||
Harbour House Museum | Iron | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | [32] | ||
Harsha House Museum | Charlevoix | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Charlevoix Historical Society | ||
Grayling | Crawford | Northern Michigan | Industry | Logging camp buildings, exhibits and period rooms | ||
Heddon Museum | Dowagiac | Cass | West Michigan | Sports | website, Heddon fishing lures, reels, rods, advertising | |
Dearborn | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Features 56 rooms on 5acres of gardens and grounds | ||
Dearborn | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Multiple | Museum complex: living, science, history, automotive, transportation, technology and biographical about Henry Ford; formerly known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village | ||
Heritage House | Bay | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | Early 20th-century Victorian period house[33] | ||
Berrien | West Michigan | Local history | website, located in the Priscilla U. Byrns Heritage Center | |||
Battle Creek | Calhoun | West Michigan | Religious | website, restored or replicated buildings featuring the heritage of the Seventh-day Adventist Church | ||
Historic Bowens Mills | Barry | West Michigan | Open-air | website, 19acres historical park with grist mill, school house, 1860s house, log cabin, water wheel | ||
Niles | Berrien | West Michigan | Historic house | 1880s Aesthetic Period mansion | ||
Cheboygan | Northern Michigan | Multiple | Living history and natural history programs, period settings, discovery centers with interactive technological exhibits, archaeological ruin exhibits and artifact vitrines, interpretive panels, nature trails | |||
Historic Pelkie Grade School | Pelkie | Baraga | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | School | website, operated by the Sturgeon Valley Historical Society | |
St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | website, includes St. Clair County Farm Museum, Lynn Township Schoolhouse, Murphy/Ryan Farmhouse, C.C. Peck and Company bank | |||
Berrien | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, includes 1839 Courthouse, 1830 Log House, 1870 Sheriff's House | |||
Holland | Ottawa | West Michigan | Local history | Dutch paintings and decorative arts, Lake Michigan maritime history, industry, immigration | ||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Ethnic | Includes Museum of European Jewish Heritage, International Institute of the Righteous | |||
Marshall | Calhoun | West Michigan | Historic house | Operated by the Marshall Historical Society, 1880s-period house | ||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Open-air | Operated by the Houghton County Historical Society, site includes a railroad, one room schoolhouse, the Houghton County Historical Society Heritage Center and a WPA-era log cabin; participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Houghton Lake Area Historical Village and Playhouse | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Open-air | website, life in a typical logging village of Northern Michigan in the late 19th century, operated by the Houghton Lake Area Historical Society | |||
Hudson Historical Museum | Lenawee | Southeast Michigan | Local history | [34] | ||
Huron City Museums | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Open-air | website, operated by the William Lyon Phelps Foundation, includes Victorian house, log cabin, church, general store, carriage shed, life-saving station and barns | ||
Huron Lightship (LV-103) | Port Huron | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Maritime | Part of Port Huron Museum | |
Hyser Rivers Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Plainfield Township Historical Preservation Committee | ||
Mackinaw City | Cheboygan | Northern Michigan | Maritime | Museum ship United States Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw WAGB-83 | ||
Imlay City Historical Museum | Lapeer | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website | ||
Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Science | Hands-on science exhibits for children | ||
Inland Seas Education Center | Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Natural history | website, history, ecology and economics of the Great Lakes | ||
Inland Water Route Historical Society Museum | Emmet | Northern Michigan | Local history | website | ||
International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Hall of fame | website, open by appointment only | |
Iosco County Historical Museum | Iosco | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Iosco County Historical Society | ||
Iron | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Multiple | website, 22 buildings including a Heritage Hall, two Mining Halls, a cultural center, Lee LeBlanc Wildlife Art Gallery, Giovanelli Italianati Art Gallery, Homestead and Lumbercamp with log buildings, The Carrie Jacobs Bond Victorian house & Museum Book & Gift Shop | |||
Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Open-air | Former lumber and hardwood manufacturing village | ||||
Japanese Cultural Center and Tea House | Saginaw | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Culture | website, Japanese garden, tea house, culture demonstrations | |
Jenison Historical Museum | Ottawa | West Michigan | Historic house | website, located in the Husband-Hanchett-Tiffany House, operated by the Jenison Historical Association | ||
Big Rapids | Mecosta | Northern Michigan | Culture | Part of Ferris State University, racist memorabilia | ||
John Pahl Historical Village | Allegan | West Michigan | Open-air | Operated by the Allegan County Historical Society, located within the Allegan County Fairgrounds, open during the fair and by appointment[35] | ||
Kalamazoo | West Michigan | Art | ||||
Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | West Michigan | Multiple | History, science, technology, operated by Kalamazoo Valley Community College | ||
Manistee | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Historic house | House built of bottle wall construction in 1941 | ||
Kaleva Train Depot Museum | Manistee | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Railroad | website | |
Kalkaska County Museum | Kalkaska | Local history | website, operated by the Kalkaska County Historical Society in a historic depot | |||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Archaeology | Part of the University of Michigan, Mediterranean civilizations | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | website, Victorian Greek-Revival house showing how a German-American family lived in the 1890s | ||
Kent City Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Railroad | website, operated by the Kent City Area Historical Group | ||
Keweenaw Heritage Center | Calumet | Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, located in the former St. Anne's Church | |
Calumet | Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Mining | |||
Kids 'N' Stuff Children's Museum | Albion | Calhoun | West Michigan | Children's | website | |
Battle Creek | Calhoun | West Michigan | Historic house | website, operated by the Historical Society of Battle Creek, Victorian-era mansion, features room about Sojourner Truth | ||
Battle Creek | Calhoun | West Michigan | Natural history | Exhibits include paleontology, geology specimens, wildlife mounts, a preserved human embryo and fetus exhibit, Native American artifacts and a planetarium | ||
K.I. Sawyer Heritage Museum | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Transportation - Aviation | website, adjacent to Sawyer International Airport, contributions made by the men, women and machines of K I Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan to America's Cold War defense mission | ||
Knowlton's Ice Museum of North America | Port Huron | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | History | website, over 3,000 items used in the cutting, harvesting, storing, selling and use of natural ice as used by the ice industry of years ago | |
Berrien | West Michigan | Art | website, visual arts center with exhibit galleries | |||
Kruizenga Art Museum | Holland | Ottawa | West Michigan | Art | Teaching museum on Hope College's campus | |
Kreft Center Gallery | Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Art | website, part of Concordia University | |
Lake Odessa Museum | Ionia | Central Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Lake Odessa Area Historical Society, area and railroad history, includes a Pere Marquette Depot built in 1887, a restored Grand Trunk caboose, the Freight Station Museum which houses local historical displays and the Hosford House | ||
Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Multiple | website, area natural and cultural history, lumber industry, and Scolnik House, a Depression-era period house | ||
Lakeview Area Museum | Montcalm | Central Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Lakeview Historical Society | ||
Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Art | Gallery and education center for visual arts | ||
Lapeer | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Lapeer County Historical Society | |||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | Tours of the Victorian era hotel, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Leland | Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Local history | Includes exhibit of Anishinaabe black ash baskets and quillwork on birch bark | ||
Lenawee | Southeast Michigan | Local history | ||||
Les Cheneaux Historical Museum | Mackinac | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Les Cheneaux Historical Association, exhibits on lumbering, fishing, tourism, quilting, weaving, recreational activities | ||
Les Cheneaux Maritime Museum | Cedarville | Mackinac | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | website, operated by the Les Cheneaux Historical Association, includes vintage boats, marine artifacts, antique outboard motors, photos and a boat building workshop | |
Lewiston Area Historical Museum | Local history | [36] | ||||
West Michigan | Historic house | Home and memorial to American horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey | ||||
Lighthouse Keepers House and Museum | Grand Marais | Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | Operated by the Grand Marais Historical Society[37] | |
Lincoln Park Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Lincoln Park Historical Society | ||
Northern Michigan | Railroad | Includes a restored caboose and switching engine, operated by the Alcona Historical Society[38] | ||||
Linden Mills Historical Museum | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Linden Mills Historical Society | ||
West Michigan | Lighthouse | |||||
Little Traverse History Museum | Emmet | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, special exhibits on Ernest Hemingway, operated by the Little Traverse Historical Society | ||
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | 1860 house used as a station on the Underground Railroad | |||
Lowell Area Historical Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website | ||
LSSU Arts Center Gallery | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Art | website, part of Lake Superior State University, houses the L. F. Noyes Collection of Native American and Western Art | ||
Luce | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | Combination jail and sheriff's residence | |||
Luckhard Museum | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | Pioneer & Indian relics[39] | ||
Ludington | Mason | Northern Michigan | Maritime | Lighthouse open to the public during the summer season for climbing tours | ||
Oscoda | Iosco | Northern Michigan | Industry - Logging | Monument and visitor center with exhibits about logging industry | ||
Mackinac Island | Mackinac | Northern Michigan | Multiple | Includes Fort Mackinac and Fort Holmes, several museum buildings in historic downtown: McGulpin House, American Fur Company Store & Dr. Beaumont Museum, Biddle House, Benjamin Blacksmith Shop, McGulpin House, and Mission Church | ||
Mackinaw Bridge Museum | Mackinaw City | Cheboygan | Northern Michigan | Technology | website, construction of the Mackinac Bridge | |
Manistee County Historical Museum | Manistee | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, located in a historic store, exhibits include the Civil War, pioneer life, antiques and maritime history; also operates another facility in the historic Waterworks building, exhibits include logging, railroad, and marine exhibits and memorabilia of Manistee in the 19th century | |
Jackson | Central Michigan | Historic house | 1880s Victorian home, furnishings and gardens | |||
Manton Area Historical Museum | Wexford | Northern Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Manton Area Historical Society; adjacent Veteran's Memorial Museum[40] | ||
Marilla Museum | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Open-air | website, Pioneer Place: 1860s fully furnished log house, early 20th-century barn and a full-size replica logger's cabin; operated by the Marilla Historical Society | ||
Marine City Pride & Heritage Museum | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Marquette Arts and Culture Center | Marquette | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Art | website, community art center, located in the lower level of the Peter White Public Library | |
Marquette | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Marquette | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Marquette Maritime Museum | ||
Marquette | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | website, collection of Great Lakes Lighthouse lenses including 2nd, 3rd and 4th order "Classical" Fresnel Lenses, also operates Marquette Harbor Light | ||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Natural history | Natural and cultural history of Southeast Michigan | |||
Farmington Hills | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Technology | Historical and modern arcade machines, sideshow wonders, fortune tellers, automatons, and curiosities | ||
Mary's City of David Museum | Benton Harbor | Berrien | West Michigan | Religious | website, open-air museum about the House of David Christian commune | |
Marysville Historical Museum | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Art | Part of Saginaw Valley State University, displays plaster models of Marshall Fredericks bronze sculptures, also changing art exhibits | |||
Marshall Postal Museum | Marshall | Calhoun | West Michigan | History | Postal artifacts and memorabilia, open by appointment[41] [42] | |
Martha Barker Country Store Museum | Monroe | Monroe | Southeast Michigan | Store | Open by appointment | |
Mason Area Historical Society Museum | Ingham | Central Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Mayville Area Museum of History | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website | |||
Mackinaw City | Emmet | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Open on summer weekends | ||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | 110-room, 88000square feet mansion, contains paintings by Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Rosa Bonheur, Gilbert Stuart, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough, and sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye, Frederic Remington, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, and Herbert Haseltine | |||
Mecosta County Historical Museum | Big Rapids | Mecosta | Northern Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Mecosta County Historical Society[43] | |
Menominee County Heritage Museum | Menominee | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Menominee County Historical Society | ||
Iron Mountain | Dickinson | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Menominee Range Historical Foundation | ||
Meridian Historical Village | Ingham | Central Michigan | Open-air | website, 19th-century period buildings, open seasonally | ||
Mesick Area Historical Museum | Wexford | Northern Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Historic house | Restored 1909 house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright | ||
Michigamme Museum | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Michigan Art Walk | Big Rapids | Mecosta | Northern Michigan | Art | website, collection of original artwork created by Michigan artists, located at Ferris State University | |
Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Firefighting | website, formerly Ypsilanti Antique Auto, Truck and Fire Museum, then Michigan Antique Fire Equipment Preservation Group Museum | |||
Michigan Flywheelers Museum | Van Buren | West Michigan | Technology | website, antique gas and steam engines and tractors | ||
Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | History | website, 5 levels of Michigan history, part of the Michigan Historical Center | ||
Muskegon | West Michigan | Open-air | Includes a mastodon site, Native American village, authentic and reproduction furnished buildings representing different eras in state history | |||
Frankenmuth | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Military | website, honors Michigan soldiers, sailors, aviators and astronauts who fought in our nation's foreign wars and bravely explored outer space; formerly known as Michigan's Military & Space Heroes Museum | ||
Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry | website, state's iron mining industry | |||
Benzie | Northern Michigan | Art | Outdoor sculpture park with works that interpret Michigan's history | |||
Michigan Magazine Museum | History | website, Michigan memorabilia | ||||
South Haven | Van Buren | West Michigan | Maritime | website, Coast Guard and lifesaving, local fishing, maritime lore, Friends Good Will 1810 square topsail sloop | ||
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Masonic | website, includes Masonic photographs, jewels, aprons, charts and carpets | ||
Michigan Military Technical Historical Society | Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Military | website, history of Michigan's civilian and military personnel in 20th-century conflicts | ||
Michigan Museum of Military Transport | Grayling | Crawford | Northern Michigan | Transportation | website, military vehicles, currently no permanent facility | |
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Science | Hands-on science, technology, engineering exhibits in a fun dynamic environment | ||
Michigan State University Bug House | East Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Natural history | website, live and mounted insects | |
East Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Multiple | website, part of Michigan State University, natural history, culture including Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and the Great Lakes Quilt Center | ||
Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center | Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | History | website, exhibits on government and legal system in Michigan | |
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Transportation - Railroad | Historic depot restored to its 1900 appearance with exhibits of railroad stock and equipment | |||
Michigan Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum | Jackson | Central Michigan | Natural history | Over 50 Boone And Crockett world record buck racks, live deer[44] | ||
Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Hall of fame | Cultural and historical exhibits on the accomplishments and achievements of Michigan women, also an art gallery | ||
Midland | Midland | Flint/Tri-Cities | Multiple | Performing arts and museum complex, includes Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art and Midland County Historical Society's Heritage Park | ||
Midland | Midland | Flint/Tri-Cities | Multiple | Interactive local history exhibits, history of the Dow Chemical Company, 1874 Historic Gothic Victorian House, collection of historic sleighs and carriages and more | ||
Mid-Michigan Children's Museum | Saginaw | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Children's | website | |
Milford Historical Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Historic houses | website, operated by the Milford Historical Society, 1835 Greek-revival Victorian house and log cabin | ||
Millington - Arbela Historical Society Museum | Tuscola | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website | ||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | website, operated by the Northville Historical Society, relocated 19th-century village buildings | |||
Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Museum ship | Retired passenger ship and automobile ferry | ||
Mission Point Lighthouse | Grand Traverse | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | |||
Monroe | Monroe | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Monroe County Historical Commission, exhibits include George Armstrong Custer, local military, Native American and settler history; Martha Barker Country Store Museum and Navarre Anderson Trading Post Complex are open only by appointment | ||
Monroe County Labor History Museum | Monroe | Monroe | Southeast Michigan | History | website, history of organized labor movement in Michigan | |
Monroe County Vietnam Veterans Historical Museum | Monroe | Monroe | Southeast Michigan | Military | website | |
Montague Museum | Muskegon | West Michigan | Local history | website, located in a former church, operated by the Montague Historical Association | ||
Montcalm Heritage Village | Montcalm | Central Michigan | Open air | website, operated by Montcalm Community College, 28 buildings with artifacts from local areas depicting life in Michigan in turn the turn of the 20th Century | ||
Montrose Historical and Telephone Pioneer Museum | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Technology | website, antique and novelty telephones and equipment, local history, operated by the Montrose Area Historical Association | ||
Morton House Museum | Benton Harbor | Berrien | West Michigan | Historic house | website | |
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Hall of fame | Hall of fame for drivers on land, sea and air, museum features Indy Cars, stock cars, sports cars, dragsters, race trucks and openwheelers | |||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Music | Also known as Hitsville U.S.A., dedicated to the legacy of the Motown Records, its artists and music | ||
Munising Falls Interpretive Center | Munising | Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Located in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, natural and cultural history of the area | |
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Art | |||
Central Michigan | Multiple | website, part of Central Michigan University, natural history dioramas, cultural artifacts | ||||
Troy | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Art | Contemporary art, commonly known as MoNA, locations in Troy and Armada, Michigan | ||
Mackinac | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Native American | Exhibits include Ojibwa culture and traditions, first contact with French explorers, and the former mission's archaeological past | |||
Museum on Main Street | Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Washtenaw County Historical Society | |
Sault Ste. Marie | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Museum ship | Also known as Steamship Valley Camp, Great Lakes freighter museum ship housing a 20000square feet museum with over 100 maritime exhibits, 4 aquariums and two lifeboats from the wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald | ||
Music House Museum | Grand Traverse | Northern Michigan | Music | website, antique musical instruments and music-making machines from 1870 through 1930 | ||
Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Art | website | ||
Muskegon Heritage Museum | Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Local history | website, featuring Muskegon's industrial, business and historic homes with working machinery | |
Myers School Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Railroad | 19th-century schoolhouse[45] | ||
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Nature center | Exhibits on local natural and cultural history in a historic grist mill | |||
National Miniatures Trust Museum | Barry | West Michigan | Toy | website, dolls and miniatures, on the grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum | ||
Monroe | Monroe | Southeast Michigan | History | Late 18th-century trading post owned by the Monroe County Historical Museum, open for special events and group tours | ||
Negaunee | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Negaunee Historical Society, area iron mining, 19th century living room, local history and culture | ||
Nelis' Dutch Village | Holland | Ottawa | West Michigan | Culture | website, shopping theme park featuring buildings of authentic Dutch architecture, brick walkways, canals, gardens and special presentations depicting life in a typical village in the Netherlands in the late 19th century; includes Kolean Museum featuring Dutch clothing, farm and cheese making equipment | |
Berrien | West Michigan | Railway | website | |||
Presque Isle | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | ||||
Dowagiac | Cass | West Michigan | Historic house | Restored two-story Quaker home of the mid-1800s[46] | ||
North Berrien Historical Museum | Berrien | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the North Berrien Historical Society, history of the resorts of the Paw Paw Lakes, fruit farming, businesses, industries, and people of the area | ||
Northeast Oakland Historical Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Oakfield Pioneer Heritage Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Oakfield Pioneer Heritage Society | ||
Oakland University Art Gallery | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Art | website, formerly known as Meadow Brook Art Gallery | ||
Mears | Oceana | West Michigan | Open-air | Operated by the Oceana County Historical & Genealogical Society, includes five museums: Swift Lathers Museum, Tool Museum, Boynton Cottage Museum, Transportation Museum, Robinson Museum | ||
Ogemaw Historical Museum | Northern Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Ogemaw Genealogical & Historical Society[47] | |||
Ontonagon | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Ontonagon Historical Society, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park[48] | |||
Ontonagon | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Ontonagon Historical Society | |||
Old Bailey School | Alcona | Northern Michigan | School | Open for special events, operated by the Alcona Historical Society | ||
Old Depot Museum | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Ironwood Area Historical Society[49] [50] | |||
Old Fence Rider Historical Center | Montcalm | Central Michigan | Local history | website, historical collection of Western heritage[51] | ||
Mackinaw City | Cheboygan | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Lighthouse and museum | ||
Monroe | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Fashion, furniture, farm life, Native Americans, legacy of Henry Ford | |||
Old Post Office Museum | Grand Marais | Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Grand Marais Historical Society | |
Presque Isle | Presque Isle | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Museum and inoperative lighthouse | ||
Old Rugged Cross Historical Museum | Local history | Also life of George Bennard, composer of the hymn The Old Rugged Cross[52] | ||||
Ontonagon | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | Victorian copper mining town, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Orchard Lake Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society | ||
Ortonville Historical Society Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, housed in an old mill | ||
Otsego County Historical Museum | Otsego | Northern Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Otsego County Historical Society | ||
Gogebic | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Natural history | Visitor center for Ottawa National Forest, environmental education programs, maps, area information, interpretive exhibits, accessible trails | |||
Manistee | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Local history | Historic Danish Evangelical Lutheran church with exhibits on early Scandinavian settlement in the area | ||
Overbrook Gallery | Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Art | website, located in the Frauenthal Fine Arts Center on the campus of Muskegon Community College, exhibits work by local, Michigan, and out-of-state artists and MCC art students | |
Padzieski Art Gallery | Dearborn | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Art | website, part of the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, operated by the Dearborn Community Arts Council | |
Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum | Local history | website, also known as the Clinton County Historical Society Museum | ||||
Rochester | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Art | website, visual arts center | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Mill | Late 19th-century working grain mill | ||
Pascoe House Museum | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | website, operated by the Republic Area Historical Society | ||
Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | 1884 Swedish log house | |||
Delta | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Visitors can climb the lighthouse tower, operated by Hiawatha National Forest | |||
visitors can use Guide by Cell for narration | ||||||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Decorative art | Arts & Crafts ceramics and contemporary pottery | ||
Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Religious | Restored 19th-century Catholic church | |||
Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Pickford Area Historical Society | |||
Grand Marais | Alger | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic house | Operated by the Grand Marais Historical Society | ||
Pigeon Depot Museum | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Pigeon Historical Society | ||
Pine Forest Historical Museum | Montcalm | Central Michigan | Local history | [53] | ||
Pine Grove Historical Museum | Pontiac | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Multiple | website, operated by the Oakville County Pioneer and Historical Society, complex include Pine Grove, the former estate of Governor Moses Wisner and outbuildings, the Drayton Plains One-Room Schoolhouse, the Carriage House, the Pioneer Museum with tools and farm implements | |
Cass | West Michigan | Historic house | Includes tools, farm equipment, quilts and dolls | |||
Pioneer Log Village | Bad Axe | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Open-air | website, operated by the Bad Axe Historical Society, pioneer home, general store, school, chapel, barn and blacksmith shop | |
Plank Road Museum | Breckenridge | Gratiot | Central Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Breckenridge-Wheeler Area Historical Society | |
Plymouth Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, growth of American industry, the advent of the railroad and the invention of the automobile | ||
Podunk House & Pioneer Museum | Fenton | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, home and museum for the Pioneer Memorial Association of Fenton & Mundy Townships; 1837 Greek-revival pioneer family home, museum with tools and artifacts of early settlers | |
Benzie | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | ||||
Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Bay Mills-Brimley Historical Research Society in Hiawatha National Forest | |||
Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Lighthouse | Two museums, one about shipwrecks in Lake Huron, the other about the lighthouse | |||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Military | Struggle for the freedom and independence of Poland during World War II | |||
Port Austin History Center | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Port Austin Historical Society | ||
Port Huron | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Multiple | Four museums: Carnegie Center -- Port Huron Museum, Huron Lightship, Thomas Edison Depot Museum and Fort Gratiot Lighthouse | ||
Rogers City | Presque Isle | Northern Michigan | Local history | Located in the Craftsman-style Bradley House, includes period rooms, toys, Native American artifacts, country store, tools and other exhibits | ||
Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Mining | Copper mine, mine buildings and mining exhibits; participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | |||
Railroad Depot Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Railroad | Artifacts from the Muskegon, Saginaw and Toledo Railway, open for festivals and by appointment | ||
Eagle Harbor Township | Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | School | Operated by the Keweenaw County Historical Society, 19th-century period one-room school, participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | ||
Charlevoix | Northern Michigan | Multiple | Regional science and technology center, also art, history and culture | |||
Region of Three Oaks Museum | Berrien | West Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Agriculture, open-air | Operated by the Saline Historical Society, farm living between the years 1900–1950 with a house and 11 farm outbuildings | |||
Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Automotive | Oldsmobiles dating from 1897 to 2004, automobilia, REO Motor Car Company vehicles | ||
Mackinac Island | Mackinac | Northern Michigan | Art | Mackinac-related art and photography including Native American artifacts and decorative arts, part of Mackinac Island State Park | ||
Sault Ste. Marie | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | website, history of the St. Mary's River and its inhabitants | ||
Monroe | Monroe | Southeast Michigan | Military | Battle site during the War of 1812 | ||
River Rouge Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Art | Slusser Gallery on North Campus, Work: Ann Arbor, operated by the Stamps School of Art & Design | ||
Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | website, 16acres museum complex including a 1927 dairy barn with exhibits about area history | ||
Keweenaw | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Maritime | Located in Isle Royale National Park, features maritime displays | |||
Rockford Area Museum | Kent | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Rockford Area Historical Society | ||
Rockland Township Historical Museum | Rockland Township | Ontonagon | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | [54] | |
Rockwood Area Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Rockwood Area Historical Society[55] | ||
Roethke House | Saginaw | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Biographical | website, home of poet Theodore Roethke | |
Romulus Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | [56] | ||
Royal Oak Historical Society Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, housed in old Northwood Fire Station | ||
Saarinen House + Gardens | Bloomfield Hills | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | website, home and studio designed by Eliel Saarinen, part of the Cranbrook Art Museum | |
Saginaw | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Art | website, American, European, Asian, Egyptian and local art | ||
Saginaw Railway Museum | Saginaw | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Railroad | website, operated by the Saginaw Valley Railroad Historical Society, trains, railroad technology, model train exhibit | |
Bay City | Bay | Flint/Tri-Cities | Maritime | U.S. Navy destroyer USS Edson (DD-946) | ||
Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery | University Center | Saginaw | Flint/Tri-Cities | Art | website, located in the Arbury Fine Arts Center, contemporary art | |
Saint Joseph Mercy Health Exploration Station | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Medical | website, health education learning center, open for individuals and families to tour the exhibit gallery on the fourth Thursday of each month | ||
Saline Depot Museum | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Railroad | website, operated by the Saline Historical Society | ||
Samuel Adams Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Huron Township Historical Society[57] | ||
Samuel Kingsley House | Romulus | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | 1855 house, stop along the Underground Railroad | |
Escanaba | Delta | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Delta County Historical Society | ||
Sandcastles Children's Museum | Ludington | Mason | Northern Michigan | Children's | website | |
Sanilac | Flint/Tri-Cities | Open-air | website, eight historic buildings on a 10acres campus including a 20-room Victorian mansion, 1900 general store, one-room schoolhouse, 1883 log cabin, barn theater, marine shipwreck room, dairy industry museum, carriages, military and Native American exhibits | |||
Allegan | West Michigan | Art | website, performing and visual arts center | |||
Allegan | West Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, also the 1866 Old School House | |||
Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Art | Artists' club, gallery, and studio | ||
East Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Art | Alternative arts center | ||
Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Schoolcraft County Historical Society | ||||
Schmaltz Geology Museum and Dinosaur Park | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | West Michigan | Natural History (geology and fossils) | Part of Western Michigan University | |
Sebewaing Township Hall | Sebewaing | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | Operated by the Sebewaing Area Historical Society; also operates the Charles W. Liken House Museum[58] [59] | |
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Transportation - Aviation | Operated by the Michigan Air Guard Historical Association, over 15 historic planes and exhibits | |||
Selinsky-Green Farmhouse Museum | Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | website, late 19th-century period immigrant's house, located behind the St. Clair Shores Public Library, operated by the St. Clair Shores Historical Commission[60] | ||
Schoolcraft | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Gulliver Historical Society | |||
Shiawassee Arts Center | Owosso | Shiawassee | Central Michigan | Art | website | |
Shiawassee County Historical Society | Owosso | Shiawassee | Central Michigan | Local history | website | |
Decorative arts | Rustic pine furniture, also known as the Log Hunting Lodge Museum | |||||
Siegfried H. Horn Archaeological Museum | Berrien Springs | Berrien | West Michigan | Archaeology | website, part of Andrews University, also known as Horn Archaeological Museum, ancient Near-Eastern artifacts, including coins, pottery, sculptures, tools, weapons, figurines, jewelry, seals and glass vessels | |
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Medical | Part of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry; dental practice and technology in the United States and Michigan from the 18th century to today | ||
Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Maritime | Part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; Coast Guard and lifesaving history and equipment | |||
Flint | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Multiple | Regional history, historic automobiles, hands-on science, Longway Planetarium | ||
Lenawee | Southeast Michigan | Railroad | Heritage railroad and museum | |||
Leelanau | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Manitou Island Lighthouse Society | |||
Southgate Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Operated by the Southgate Historical Foundation in the Grahl House[61] | ||
Spirit of the Woods Museum | Elk Rapid | Antrim | Northern Michigan | Multiple | website, dioramas of native Michigan animals, Native American artifacts | |
Manistee | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Museum ship | Great Lakes railroad car ferry | ||
St. Clair County Farm Museum | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Agriculture | website, collection of farm equipment | ||
St. Clair Historical Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
St. Mary's Historical Museum | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | Polish settler log cabin, open by appointment[62] | ||
Orchard Lake | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Multiple | Includes nine small museums of Polish military and political history, gallery of Polish art | ||
Arenac | Flint/Tri-Cities | Railroad | Stone Detroit and Mackinac Railway Station, including rolling stock, antique British passenger cars, houses area visitor center | |||
Owosso | Shiawassee | Central Michigan | Railroad | Heritage railroad with steam and diesel locomotives, freight and other cars | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Music | Part of the University of Michigan, over 2500 pieces of historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world | ||
Steiner Museum | Oscoda | Industry - Logging | Logging and pioneering history and artifacts[63] | |||
Flint | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | website | ||
Straight Farmhouse | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, home of the Garden City Historical Museum | ||
Mackinac Island | Mackinac | Northern Michigan | Local history | |||
Harrisville | Alcona | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Alcona Historical Society; on the grounds is the Old Bailey School, a 1907 One-room school house, which was moved there from Mikado, Michigan in 1998.[64] | ||
Tahquamenon Logging Museum | Newberry | Luce | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Logging | website, Michigan's early logging industry, includes a cook shack, original C.C.C. building, open seasonally | |
Taylor Veterans Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Military | Located inside Taylor City Hall[65] | ||
East Tawas | Iosco | Northern Michigan | Lighthouse | Located in Tawas Point State Park | ||
Lenawee | Southeast Michigan | Local history | History of the communities around Tecumseh, including Macon, Ridgeway, Tipton and Britton | |||
Ten Cent Barn Museum | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the Ubly Area Historical Society | ||
Port Huron | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Biographical | Owned and operated by the Port Huron Museum, life of Thomas Edison | ||
Three Oaks Bicycle Museum | Berrien | West Michigan | Transportation | [66] | ||
Thumb Octagon Barn Agricultural Museum | Tuscola | Flint/Tri-Cities | Agriculture | website, agriculture tools, equipment, buildings | ||
Tompkins Historical Society Museum | Jackson | Central Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Top of the Lake Snowmobile Museum | Mackinac | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Sports | website, antique and vintage snowmobiles | ||
Totem Village Museum | St. Ignace | Mackinac | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Native American | Collection of totem poles and lumbering artifacts in a gift shop[67] [68] [69] | |
Sault Ste. Marie | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, observation tower and exhibits of early Missionaries, local & Native American history | ||
Travelers Club International Restaurant & Tuba Museum | Ingham | Central Michigan | Music | website, restaurant and collection of tubas, sousaphones, French horns | ||
Trenton Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website, operated by the Trenton Historical Commission, Victorian house with local history artifacts | ||
Ottawa | West Michigan | Local history | website, exhibits include Native Americans, early pioneers, lumberjacks, French voyageurs, Victorian period rooms, medicine, agriculture, lumbering, maritime, tourism | |||
Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | Ten historic buildings on a village green, museum of local history | |||
Lansing | Ingham | Central Michigan | Historic house | Mansion operated by the city | ||
Tuskegee Airmen National Museum | Detroit | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Military | website, located at Fort Wayne, history of blacks in aviation in World War II up until the integration of the Armed Forces, open by appointment | |
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Ethnic | Ukrainian culture, art and contributions to the United States | |||
University Art Gallery CMU | Mount Pleasant | Isabella | Central Michigan | Art | website, part of Central Michigan University | |
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Art | Features European and Asian art, including some by Pablo Picasso, Helen Frankenthaler, and James McNeill Whistler. Outdoor sculptures include Orion and Daedalus. | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Natural history | Part of the University of Michigan, dinosaur exhibits, Michigan wildlife, anthropology, geology and a planetarium. University of Michigan research museums: Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Paleontology, Museum of Zoology, University Herbarium | ||
Upper Peninsula Children's Museum | Marquette | Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Children's | website | |
Calumet | Houghton | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Firefighting | Participating institution in Keweenaw National Historical Park | ||
U.P. Steam & Gas Engine Antique Village & Agriculture Museum | Escanaba | Delta | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Technology | website, operated by the U.P. Steam and Gas Engine Association, antique agriculture equipment and artifacts | |
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Art | website | ||
Port Huron | St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Museum ship | 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender | ||
Manistee | Manistee | Northern Michigan | Museum ship | USCG seagoing buoy tender | ||
Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Museum ship | built for the United States Navy during World War II | ||
Muskegon | Muskegon | West Michigan | Maritime | Includes the museum, USS Silversides (SS-236) submarine and USS McLane Coast Guard cutter; formerly known as the Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Museum | ||
Marquette | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Hall of fame - Sports | ||||
Van Buren Historical Society Museum | Van Buren | West Michigan | Local history | [70] | ||
Vicksburg Historic Village | Kalamazoo | West Michigan | Open-air | website, operated by the Vicksburg Historical Society, includes the Vicksburg Depot Museum with railroad cars and equipment, a print shop, school house, express office, farm house and barn | ||
Grand Rapids | Kent | West Michigan | Historic house | Victorian period house, operated by the Grand Rapids Public Museum | ||
Wakefield Historical Society Museum | Gogebic | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | [71] | ||
Lenawee | Southeast Michigan | History | Exhibits focus on Michigan's frontier settlement and stagecoach eras during the first half of the 19th century | |||
Waterloo Farm Museum | Jackson | Central Michigan | Agriculture | website, operated by the Waterloo Historical Society, includes 10 room farmhouse and many outbuildings, also nearby Dewey School, a one-room schoolhouse | ||
Water Street Historic Block | Sault Ste. Marie | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Historic houses | website, cooperative effort between the Chippewa County Historical Society, Sault Historic Sites, & the City of Sault Ste. Marie; includes Johnston House & Henry Rowe Schoolcraft office | |
Wayne Historical Museum | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Local history | website | ||
Webster Township Museum | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | Operated by the Webster Township Historical Society, complex includes Town Hall, school, blacksmith shop[72] | ||
Barry | West Michigan | Historic house | Part of Kellogg Biological Station, 32acres estate includes a Tudor Revival house, carriage house, chauffeur's cottage, boathouse, Dutch windmill, lakeside pagoda and several gardens | |||
Wellington Farm Park | Grayling | Crawford | Northern Michigan | Open-air | website, rural mid-America during the Great Depression | |
Westland Historical Park | Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | website, includes Felton Farmhouse, a typical Michigan farmhouse built in the 1850s and the Collins House, which stores the commission's historical archives | ||
West Shore Fishing Museum | Menominee | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Industry - Fishing | Operated by the Bailey Property Preservation Association[73] | ||
Cadillac | Wexford | Northern Michigan | Local history | Located in the former Cadillac Public Library | ||
Flint | Genesee | Flint/Tri-Cities | Historic house | website, late Victorian house | ||
Wheels of History Museum | Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Local history | website, railroads, logging, fishing exhibits, operated by the Bay Mills-Brimley Historical Society | ||
Chippewa | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Lighthouse | Operated by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society | |||
White Pine Village | Ludington | Mason | Northern Michigan | Open-air | Operated by the Mason County Historical Society, 25 buildings | |
Muskegon | West Michigan | Lighthouse | ||||
White Rock School Museum | Huron | Flint/Tri-Cities | Local history | website, operated by the White Rock Historical Society | ||
Escanaba | Delta | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Art | website, gallery exhibits, art workshops, classes and theatrical productions | ||
Hudson | Lenawee | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Late 19th-century home of Detroit mayor William G. Thompson, contains Japanese woodblocks, Chinese Jade and hard stone carvings, cloisonné vases, English and Continental art, antique porcelain and glass, | ||
Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | History | Part of the University of Michigan, exhibits about American history from the Age of Discovery into the 20th century | ||
St. Clair | Southeast Michigan | Automotive | History of Childe Wills and the Wills Sainte Claire automobile | |||
Holland | Ottawa | West Michigan | Mill | 240-year-old working Dutch windmill (De Zwaan) on 36acres of gardens; Posthouse Museum is a replica of a 14th-century wayside inn | ||
Wing House Museum | Branch | Central Michigan | Historic house | website, late 19th-century period home of the Branch County Historical Society | ||
Witch's Hat Depot Museum | Oakland | Southeast Michigan | Open-air | website, local history museum in former train depot, includes caboose, freight house and chapel buildings | ||
Macomb | Southeast Michigan | Agriculture | Park features historic mill, barn museum of agriculture, working farm | |||
Iron Mountain | Dickinson | Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Military | website, operated by the Menominee Range Historical Foundation, features a restored Waco CG-4 glider, military uniforms, World War II photographs, Nazi Germany artifacts, military vehicles | ||
Wurtsmith Air Museum | Oscoda | Iosco | Northern Michigan | Aviation | website, located at Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport, history of Wurtsmith Air Force Base and aviation in NE Michigan | |
Wayne | Southeast Michigan | Historic house | Early 20th-century period Ford-MacNichol House, also local history and art exhibits | |||
Ypsilanti | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Aviation | Located at Willow Run Airport | ||
Ye Ole Carriage Shop | Jackson | Central Michigan | Automotive | website, open by appointment, "Jackson made" automobiles and a large Coca-Cola collection | ||
Ypsilanti | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Automotive | Production cars from the Willow Run Plant and Hudson Motors | ||
Ypsilanti | Washtenaw | Southeast Michigan | Local history | Home of the Ypsilanti Historical Society, 1860 house with period rooms and local history exhibits | ||
Mount Pleasant | Isabella | Central Michigan | Native American | website |
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