Events

Winter blues got you down? Think Spring with this colorful rainbow craft. Free to Muskegon County residents and museum members; $3 for non-residents. Walk-in, open-house style event.

See the museum in a different light! Experience a guided tour of the museum’s lower level by flashlight! Learn about prehistoric creatures, nocturnal animals, and phosphorescence. Before or after your tour, explore the museum’s main level and take part in a fun flashlight activity! This event is open house style, but tours will be timed and […]

Leprechauns have caused mischief in the museum! Follow clues throughout the exhibits to find the footprints they left behind. There may even be a pot of gold at the end of the hunt. Free for Muskegon County residents and museum members. Just $3 for non-residents. Open house style event.

You are invited to join a special Play and Learn program at the Lakeshore Museum Center on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. “Little Learners” is a free literacy-based program for Muskegon County infants and toddlers ages 0-4.  Adults and children will learn through songs, stories, sensory stations, motor skills stations, art and […]

Join us at the Scolnik House of the Depression Era for this three-part series highlighting the economic struggle across the United States known as the Great Depression. Learn more about why the stock market crashed, how people used their resources to the fullest extent, and the hobos, hitchhikers, and Hooverville’s in Muskegon. Light refreshments will […]

  Take advantage of our extended hours tonight where we will have special activities like a spinning wheel demo and Fossil activity for families to check out before the Lumberjack's game!

We all know that the sky is blue, but just how blue is it? Make your own cyanometer and then head outside to see what blue the sky is today! Free for Muskegon County residents and museum members. Open-house style event.