New Events

IKEA Shopping Trip

Join us for a day of shopping at one of the most popular stores around. IKEA is one big store filled with thousands of items for kitchen,...

Engaging with Art

Guided Tour

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a...

Michigan Field Hockey vs. No. 11 Wake Forest

Michigan Field Hockey vs. No. 11 Wake Forest

Casey Abrams

Twenty-four-year-old singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and American Idol finalist Casey Abrams plays bass (most often), acoustic...

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Performance

Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Detroit

Michigan Women's Soccer vs. Detroit

Ongoing Attractions and Exhibits

Exhibit: Women in Science

Colorful comic book graphics in this panel exhibit invite young U-M Museum of Natural History visitors from every background to see...

The Shape of the Universe

This exhibit traces the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe, from Einstein's discovery of space-time, through the...

Annual Bonsai Show at Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Share the tradition of the practice and art of bonsai at the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society annual show at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Bonsai...

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Fair / Festival

The Jewish Tradition of Tsedakah as Exemplified in Pushkes, Charity Donation Boxes

This exhibit features an eclectic selection of Pushkes (פּושקעס) – the common Yiddish moniker for charity/donation boxes. In...

Jem Cohen

Life Drawing

The title of this multi-format photography and video installation by New York filmmaker Jem Cohen comes from the artist’s own...

Julian Schnabel

Exhibition

Julian Schnabel provides a major entry into work created by the painter celebrated for a visual language that brings together unexpected...

Mine More Coal: War Effort and Americanism in World War I Posters

Exhibition

During World War I, the American Government used a powerful poster campaign to rally all troops and farmers, housewives and shipbuilders,...

The Art of Tyree Guyton: A Thirty-Year Journey

The Heidelberg Project is one of the largest, best-known, and longest-running site-specific art installations in the country. Occupying more...

Passionate Curiosities: Collecting in Egypt & the Near East, 1880s–1950s

What circumstances formed the artifact-biographies of the collected objects we see in museum display cases? Passionate Curiosities, curated...

Planetarium: Star Talk: The Sky Tonight

Bright stars, constellations, planets, and telescopic objects in the current night sky are discussed in this live "star talk."...

Dining Out: Menus, Chefs, Restaurants, Hotels, & Guidebooks

This wide-ranging exhibit, curated by historian Jan Longone, celebrates the history of the eating out experience....

Dinosaur Tour!

Free docent-led tours of the dinosaur exhibits every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. for the first 15 people to sign up. Sign up at the host...

Planetarium: My Universe

Planetarium presenters often accumulate a number of favorite things to share with audiences. They range from the current night sky, to...

Hands-On Demo: Making a Good Impression

Explore how fossils are created during this hands-on demonstration! What parts of animals become fossilized? How old are the earliest...

Planetarium: Star Talk: The Sky Tonight

Bright stars, constellations, planets, and telescopic objects in the current night sky are discussed in this live "star talk."...

Orson Welles: Beyond the Canon and into the Archives

This student-researched exhibit—marking the centenary of Orson Welles, one of America's greatest directors of film, theater, radio...