Full Schedule of Events
Plan Your Visit
This year, the MSU Science Festival is back live and in person! Check each individual event title for more information including location, age recommendations, and pre-registration information.
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Don't miss our STEAM Expo Days April 5 & 6: Enjoy a weekend full of dazzling demonstrations and hands-on activities that will be sure to awe and inspire.
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Ongoing Events
Check out these special activations held throughout the Month of April. From art installations to a statewide BioBlitz, there's so much to do and see!
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Ongoing throughout April
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Saturday, April 11
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All Events
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A Kid's-Eye View of the Microscopic World
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
A Smashing Time with Nuclei at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
All About Groundwater: Saginaw's Aquifer in a Cup
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Animal Brain Scanner
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Animal Brains
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Are You the Next Olympic Athlete? Learn How to Measure Movement and Motor Skills
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Automation Arcade: Exploring Chemistry with AI
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Become a Chemical Detective! Learn How to Analyze Elements and Molecules
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Become a Plant Genome Investigator!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Become a Water Detective!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Bouncing Bubbles
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Brain Break
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Brain Myths Busted!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Brain Puzzle
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Build Your Own Forest!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Building Station
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
C. Elegans: A Tiny Worm with a Big Impact
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Cats Are Taking Over the World! How Can We Help
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Cell City: Explore the Building Blocks of Life
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Chemistry of the Human Senses
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Chromatography Butterflies
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Color Me Chemical!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Lobby
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Create a Critter
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Crop Defenders
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Digging Up the Past: MSU Campus Archaeology Program
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Discover How Children Think with the Moral Minds Lab!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
DNA: The Microscopic, But Berry Important Molecule
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Do Microbes Shape your Brain?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Dress Like a Neuroscientist
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Experience Greenfest!
At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit, MI 48207
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Experiment with Supercomputing Through a Video Game
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Explore Medical Laboratory Science!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Explore the Nuts and Bolts of MSU's Supercomputer!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Explore the Science of Light
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Explore the World of Artificial Intelligence with MSU’s Supercomputer
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Exploring Growth and Self-Recycling with Corn!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Exploring Life Without Water
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Face Painting
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Fish Filter Frenzy
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Food Science, Human Nutrition, and Your Health
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Outdoors, West Entrance
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
From Meals to Molecules: Solving Mysteries with Stable Isotopes
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Glitter Water Filtration
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Go with the Flow: Exploring the Movement of Water!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Goofy Goggles
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Grow Your Botanical Knowledge
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Heredity Mix and Match
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3201
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Homemade Physics
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
How Do Watersheds Work and Why Are Wetlands Important?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Human Brains
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Hungry Hungry Neurons
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Inside the Green World: Peek at Cells and Watch Flowers Drink!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Leaf Lessons: An Exploration of Leaf Shapes and Sizes
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Life Beneath the Naked Eye
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Make a Neuron
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Marshmallow Structures
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
MI Diaries: Tell Your Story for Linguistic Analysis
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
MI Water Source! Enviroscape Education Demonstration
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Mindfulness
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Mirror Minds: Building with Words
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Molecular Diffusion: Just a Bunch of Collisions!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
My Brain is Beautiful
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Nervous Breakdown
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Neuron Discovery Station
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Ocean Guardians—Learn About Sharks and How You Can Protect Them
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Oozing Oobleck: Fun With Biological Materials
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: A Day in the Life
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Phantastic Physics! Interactive Science Demos
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Play Bingo to Learn About Lab Safety
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Polymers: Breaking Down Nature's Building Blocks
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Powering the Future: Understanding Batteries Through Hands-On Electrochemistry
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Protect Your Brain
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Protein Power: Learn How to Measure Life's Building Blocks
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Race for Perfection
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Radioactive!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Ramp and Roll
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Reaction Time
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Reptiles Alive!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2101
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Science and Zombie Molecules
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
See a Cow Eye Close Up!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Seeing Speech: Acoustics and Applications to Health Care
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2201
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Seeing the Trees for the Forest and the Forest for the Trees
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Sensory Bins
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Soil: A Medium for Life and Art
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Spine Model
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
STEAM Themes: What Do Stories Teach Us?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
STEM and Nature Activities with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Superheroes of Science!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Test Your Memory
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Texture Wall
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Great Seed Showdown: Monocots vs. Dicots!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The 'Hidden Water' We Use Every Day
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Magical World of Microbes
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Nose Knows
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The PA Detective
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Quantum Zone: Lasers, Liquid Nitrogen, and Levitation!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Story of Supercomputing: A Graphic Novel and Silicon Petting Zoo
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Touch & Perception
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Triangle Trials: Motor Skills in Action
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Third Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Unlock the Wonders of Human Physiology
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Using Mobile Health Games to Boost Vaccine Education
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Watershed in Action: Learn Practical Ways to Reduce Pollution and Protect Our Water
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
What’s Inside Your Cell Phone?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
What's in the Box? A Hands-On Investigation of Scientific Practice
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Zhao Lab: Building a Cooler and Greener Future with Sustainable Materials
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Sunday, April 12
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All Events
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A Smashing Time with Nuclei at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
All About Groundwater: Saginaw's Aquifer in a Cup
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Beal: Rewilding and Reconnecting
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Become a Plant Genome Investigator!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Become a Water Detective!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Botanical Battlegrounds: Adapt, Survive, and Thrive!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Bouncing Bubbles
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Build Your Own Forest!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Building Station
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Cats Are Taking Over the World! How Can We Help
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Chemistry of the Human Senses
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Chromatography Butterflies
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Create a Critter
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Crop Defenders
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Discover How Children Think with the Moral Minds Lab!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
DNA: The Microscopic, But Berry Important Molecule
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Elementary Particles: Detecting the Invisible
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Experience Greenfest!
At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit, MI 48207
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Experiment with Supercomputing Through a Video Game
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Explore the Nuts and Bolts of MSU's Supercomputer!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Explore the World of Artificial Intelligence with MSU’s Supercomputer
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Exploring Growth and Self-Recycling with Corn!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Exploring Life Without Water
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Fish Filter Frenzy
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Glitter Water Filtration
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Go with the Flow: Exploring the Movement of Water!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Grow Your Botanical Knowledge
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Homemade Physics
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
How Do Watersheds Work and Why Are Wetlands Important?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Inside the Green World: Peek at Cells and Watch Flowers Drink!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Magic of Vision
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Marshmallow Structures
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Molecular Diffusion: Just a Bunch of Collisions!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Ocean Guardians—Learn About Sharks and How You Can Protect Them
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: A Day in the Life
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Phantastic Physics! Interactive Science Demos
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Polymers: Breaking Down Nature's Building Blocks
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Protein Power: Learn How to Measure Life's Building Blocks
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Ramp and Roll
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Science and Zombie Molecules
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Seeing Speech: Acoustics and Applications to Health Care
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2201
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Seeing the Trees for the Forest and the Forest for the Trees
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Second Floor, West Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Sensory Bins
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Soil: A Medium for Life and Art
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
STEAM Themes: What Do Stories Teach Us?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 3202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
STEM and Nature Activities with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Superheroes of Science!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Texture Wall
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2130
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Great Seed Showdown: Monocots vs. Dicots!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 2202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The 'Hidden Water' We Use Every Day
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The PA Detective
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Quantum Zone: Lasers, Liquid Nitrogen, and Levitation!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1201
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
The Story of Supercomputing: A Graphic Novel and Silicon Petting Zoo
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, North Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Unlock the Wonders of Human Physiology
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Using Mobile Health Games to Boost Vaccine Education
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, East Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Watershed in Action: Learn Practical Ways to Reduce Pollution and Protect Our Water
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
What’s Inside Your Cell Phone?
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
What's in the Box? A Hands-On Investigation of Scientific Practice
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility Room 1202
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
You Can Be a Veterinary Nurse Too!
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM -
Zhao Lab: Building a Cooler and Greener Future with Sustainable Materials
At STEM Teaching and Learning Facility First Floor, South Wing
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Saturday, April 25
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All Events
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Statewide Astronomy Night at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum
At Kalamazoo Valley Museum 230 N Rose St Kalamazoo, MI 49007
6:00 - 8:00 PM -
Statewide Astronomy Night at the Belle Isle Nature Center
At Belle Isle Nature Center 176 Lakeside Drive Detroit, MI 48207
7:00 - 10:00 PM
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Thursday, April 30
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All Events
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Sound and Science Featuring Jordan Hamilton
At The Robin Theatre 1105 S Washington Ave Lansing, MI 48910
7:00 - 9:00 PM
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