Art & Museums

Southwestern Michigan is so inspiring it’s natural for artists to settle here – and hundreds do. You’ll find their work in galleries and art centers in our three-county region. Come watch artists at work, stand beneath a glittering Chihuly glass sculpture and listen to jazz.

Life here has also been so multi-faceted and rich with events that we have a deep desire to preserve our story. We tell it in our museums where you can learn about our native people, an amusement park that inspired the Disneys, a famous horticulturist, runaway slaves, shipwrecks and lighthouse keepers, bicycles and a baseball team from a renowned religious colony. And don’t go home without spending time in our children’s museums with permanent and traveling hands-on exhibits to delight your toddlers to teens.