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Museums

Michigan History Museum exterior

Museums

Michigan's state museums and historic sites

Enjoy the 12 museums and historic sites in the Michigan History Museum System - your pathway to fun and discovery.

Each museum and historic site in the Michigan History Center's Michigan History Museum System has a unique schedule. Follow the links below to learn more about each site's availability to the public.

A man and two children wander the Civil War exhibit.

Michigan History Museum

Downtown Lansing in the Michigan Library and Historical Center Building

A 2-story white New England saltbox-style building with green shutters and a cedar shake roof.

Cambridge Junction Historic State Park

Village of Brooklyn (Jackson County)

A stone 1-story pavilion with a brown shingled roof sits among conifer trees and shrubbery

Father Marquette National Memorial

St. Ignace, in Straits State Park

Visitors wandering the grounds of Fayette Historic Townsite.

Fayette Historic Townsite

Village of Garden (Delta County)

Three of the Fort buildings.

Fort Wilkins and Copper Harbor Lighthouse

Copper Harbor - Keweenaw Peninsula

One of the Hartwick Pines Logging Museum buildings, log cabin style.

Hartwick Pines Logging Museum

Roscommon, in Hartwick Pines State Park

A long 1-story wooden building with baton and tar siding.

Higgins Lake Nursery and CCC Museum

Roscommon, in N. Higgins Lake State Park

The Mann House, its black gate and bright green lawn.

Mann House

Village of Concord (Jackson County)

A life-sized reproduction stern of a schooner in a museum exhibit

Maritime Heritage Center

Alpena, on the Thunder Bay River

Two visitors looking through exhibits.

Michigan Iron Industry Museum

Negaunee (Marquette County)

An etching in rock of a stick figure holding a bow and arrow.

Sanilac Petroglyphs

Near Cass City (Sanilac County)

A group of people walking into Tawas Point Lighthouse for a tour.

Tawas Point Lighthouse

East Tawas, in Tawas Point State Park