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Open during regular museum hours

See a real piece of the Moon, tour a full-scale future Moon habitat, and more! Examine discoveries and explorations from the past and learn about explorers shaping our future destiny in the universe.

Exhibit presented by PNC Bank and supported by GM. 
Thursday, November 11, 2021
7:30pm

The Institute’s Head of Astronomy will take you on a virtual tour of what can be seen from your backyard.
Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock, Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn, James Haefner: Michigan Modern, and Building Cranbrook: Saarinen in Michigan are all now open!
Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:00pm

Photographer James Haefner and author Brian Conway will discuss Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy.
Thursday, November 11, 2021
6:00pm

Artist Allie McGhee and the Museum’s Senior Curator, Laura Mott, will discuss McGhee’s work and his first major retrospective, Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn.
Saturdays & Sundays
Through Thanksgiving Weekend
See website for schedule

Step back in time to a golden era of craftsmanship on a guided tour of the 1908 English Tudor home designed by Albert Kahn for Cranbrook founders George Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth.
First weekend in December
Registration opens Thursday, November 4, 2021

Safely visit with Santa Claus and take a family photo outside at Cranbrook House.
Through November
More tours added Thanksgiving Weekend
See website for schedule

Don't miss your chance to tour a Usonian-style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Eliel Saarinen's Art Deco masterwork and the jewel of Cranbrook's architectural treasures.
Photograph of Thornlea House.
Thornlea House and Its Treasures: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
10:00am, 12:30pm, 5:30pm

Save the date and check the Center's website on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, for more info and to register.

Watch talent strategist and work culture expert, Steve Cadigan, and GM President and Cranbrook Educational Community Board of Trustees Chair Mark Reuss discuss ways to build a better future of work.
Cranbrook Ceramics Cup Sale
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Sunday, November 14, 2021
12:00pm - 5:00pm
Art Lab in Cranbrook Art Museum

Purchase a cup made by one of the Cranbrook Ceramics MFA students! All cups are $30. Masks are required to shop the sale. Cups are sold in-person only, not online.
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Cranbrook Art Museum Photo Credit
Photograph by PD Rearick.

Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research Photo Credit
Saarinen House photograph by Meng Li.

Cranbrook House & Gardens Photo Credit
Cranbrook House Library photograph by James Haefner. Courtesy Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.

Cranbrook Schools
Cranbrook Schools photograph by Colton Graub.

Explore Cranbrook Photo Credit
Photograph by James Haefner.