Museums in Michigan

A World War II–era submarine museum where visitors can spend the night aboard.

Swing by this brightly painted former cannery on the water for a crash-course in local boating history.

Once the home of a local newspaper, this small museum preserves the history of Beaver Island, from its Indigenous inhabitants to the arrival of a self-proclaimed king.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

This museum was once the home of industry titan Matilda Dodge Wilson.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.