Help supplement the cost of busing for Muskegon County schools to attend programs at any of the museum’s sites.

Help us build an inclusive internship program by offering $1,500 to interns.

Contribute to the safety of our guests, volunteers and staff. Fund an Automatic External Defibrillator at the following locations: Fire Barn Museum & Scolnik House Site, Archives, and Collections Center.

Sponsor supplies for our STEM Center school programs for the 2026-2027 school year, making the programs free for Muskegon County Schools.

Renewal of Adobe Premier Pro video editing software will allow us to continue developing content for educational videos.

Each $40 donation provides owl pellets for one 3^rd-5^th grade class to dissect during the museum’s Nature’s Food Webs Program.

Please help provide durable seating options for families visiting the Discovery Center in the Muskegon Museum of History & Science. This bench matches the other benches in the Museum of History and Science but features a backrest.

$100 Helps with supplies for repairs, upgrades, and new exhibits at all of our museum sites.

Used to store supplies and materials for Exhibits.

A gift as small as $25 can make a difference in maintaining and preserving our Muskegon Historic Sites. To learn more about current projects and costs contact Erin Schmitz, Historic Sites Director at: [email protected].

Restoration Projects for This Site Include:

– 10 porch repairs on the Hackley and Hume Houses
– Annual inspections on eight chimneys on all three buildings

A gift as small as $25 can make a difference in maintaining and preserving our Muskegon Historic Sites. To learn more about current projects and costs contact Erin Schmitz, Historic Sites Director at: [email protected].

Restoration Projects for This Site Include:

– General Maintenance, siding/paint
– New Windows

A gift as small as $25 can make a difference in maintaining and preserving our Muskegon Historic Sites. To learn more about current projects and costs contact Erin Schmitz, Historic Sites Director at: [email protected].

Restoration Projects for This Site Include:

– General Maintenance, siding/paint
– Window Restoration

Originally displayed in the Hackley House Library, money donated to this project will help conserve these recently donated original Hackley family artifacts and continue preservation work throughout the Museum.

Help us update our Fire Barn stickers! These stickers are a huge hit with our younger visitors and are a great promotional tool for the Fire Barn Museum.

To be used for maintenance and repairs.

For construction projects.

It’s not glamorous, but we need a lot of it to store objects.

For long-term storage of the over 50,000 objects in the collection.

This equipment will help collections and maintenance staff to safely transport artifacts to and from the collections storage to be used in exhibits.

Food Service items (knives, cutting boards, etc), serving items, display items, trashcans, acrylic sign holders, magnetic reusable nametags, etc.

To be used for events, programs, and education! Help the kids make delicious homemade ice cream while learning the science behind it.

For use at outdoor events and outreaches to keep kids in and/or bugs out!