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Sloan Museum

Regional history, historic automobiles and hands-on science are major features of the Sloan Museum, located at 1221 E. Kearsley Street in Flint, Michigan. The Science Discovery Center allows children and adults to explore principles of chemistry and physics through exhibit and staff presentations. The Hometown Gallery invites visitors to explore the 19th century with interactive hands on activities in three historic settings. The Pierson Automotive Gallery presents major automotive exhibits featuring vehicles from the Sloan fleet of over 80 Flint-built automobiles. Dramatic settings, video programs and hundreds of artifacts and photographs portray the area's tumultuous 20th century history in the Flint and the American Dream exhibit. Award-winning traveling exhibits fill the Temporary Gallery with a variety of educational and entertaining displays year-round.

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    Sloan Museum

    1221 E Kearsley Streey
    Flint, MI 48503

    Phone: 810.237.3450

    Fax: 810.237.3451

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  • Current Events

    05/15/10- 09/01/10

    From Here to There Sloan Museum From Here to There Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum May 15-September 1, 2010 transportation were designed over the ages to convey travelers ever more rapidly from point “A” to point “B.” Visitors can turn up the heat to launch a colorful hot air balloon, and adjust wind speed to form fabric into an airfoil. Sponsored by Cars108. For Families

  • Upcoming Events

    08/02/10- 08/06/10	SCUBA Dive Camp Sloan Museum SCUBA Dive Camp Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum August 2-August 6, 2010 Back by popular demand! Explore the undersea world of the Great Lakes and even the Caribbean with Scuba diving experts from Flint’s Dive Shop. Discover underwater archaeology, shipwrecks, basic and advanced dive equipment and shark teeth! On the last two days of the camp we’ll go strap on the tanks and go underwater!
    08/06/10	Historical Reenacting 101 Sloan Museum Historical Reenacting 101 Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum August 6, 2010 Want to learn more about how people lived 150 or 200 years ago? Try wearing their clothes and walking in their shoes! This fascinating hobby involves learning about our ancestors and understanding their daily lives. Discover the world of historical reenacting and march through history at the Sloan Museum! Pre-registration required.
    08/11/10- 08/12/10	The Fossil Dig!-Two Days Sloan Museum The Fossil Dig!-Two Days Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum August 11-August 12, 2010 Discover the fascinating world of fossils in this two-part program. On day 1 we’ll learn about fossils and create our own at the Sloan Museum. Then, on day 2, we’ll travel to Ligon Outdoor Center and experience an actual dig-site. Once at Ligon, we’ll dig-up and identify rocks, minerals, crystals and fossilized remains! Note-participants need to provide their own transportation to Ligon Outdoor Center (Clio) Pre-registration required.

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  • Past Events

    07/23/10	Shipwreck Science Sloan Museum Shipwreck Science Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum July 23, 2010 Join award winning Film Pproducer, Ric Mixter, as he tells of Undersea Adventure and Ghostly Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Pre-registration required.
    07/15/10	Water Party Sloan Museum Water Party Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum July 15, 2010 Wear your swimsuit and bring a towel! Cool off with several hands-on stations in Sloan Museum’s Courtyard. Do some laundry the old fashioned way & play some water games. Activities will be substituted and moved indoors in the case of inclement weather.
    07/13/10	Work and Play of Yesterday Sloan Museum Work and Play of Yesterday Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum July 13, 2010 Explore the past while playing with fun hands-on stations! Play stations will include old time toys, chores from the past and outdoor games.
    07/07/10- 07/09/10	Vintage Sports Camp Sloan Museum Vintage Sports Camp Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum July 7-July 9, 2010 We’ll take to the field and learn about (and play) the sports of yesteryear! From Baggataway (lacrosse) of the Native Americans to Battlecock and Shuttledoor (early badminon), you’ll try them all. An early history and an outline of the rules of the game will precede each sport. Join us and test your skills in this series of fun games!
    07/07/10	Air Sloan Museum Air Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum July 7, 2010 Visit the exhibit “From Here to There” to explore how air can move things. Then join us in the classroom for hands-on air activities. Investigate air pressure while making a device that will spray water at your friends. See what happens to a marshmallow and other objects when you remove air pressure with a vacuum pump. Make and race a sail car.
    06/28/10- 06/30/10	From Here to There Science Camp Sloan Museum From Here to There Science Camp Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 28-June 30, 2010 How do we get from here to there? On land, sea and through the air! Join us as we explore Sloan Museum’s latest temporary exhibit “From Here to There”. Kids will enjoy guided activities in the exhibit space and many fast paced, hands-on science activities in the programs room. We’ll also go on a Car Safari at the Buick Gallery and Research Center. Monday: Cars, Trucks, Trains and a Tank! Tuesday: Float your Boat! Wednesday: Up in the Air! Snacks provided.
    06/26/10- 06/27/10	Sloan Museum Auto Fair Sloan Museum Sloan Museum Auto Fair Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 26-June 27, 2010 This event is a fun-filled two-day show with plenty of music, entertainment, vendors and of course, automobiles! The Flint Cultural Center campus becomes home to more than 600 of the best looking cars, trucks and motorcycles around. For all ages!
    06/22/10- 06/23/10	Animal Tracks Challenge Sloan Museum Animal Tracks Challenge Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 22-June 23, 2010 Why do animals have different kinds of feet? How do their special foot features help them survive? In this two part program we'll investigate some of the creates that inhabit our Michigan Forests. Day one will be at Sloan Museum, then we'll travel on day two to Ligon Outdoor Center and hike through the trails to look for tracks left by our animal friends! Note-participants need to provide their own transportation to Ligon Outdoor Center (Clio).
    06/21/10- 06/25/10	Girls Through Time Sloan Museum Girls Through Time Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 21-June 25, 2010 Back by popular demand and with new activities, travel back in time with historical dolls. Visit the American Revolution, Civil War and the Depression. Hear the stories from girls in that time. Play games, create crafts, eat snacks, and dress in styles authentic to that era.
    06/18/10	Box City Sloan Museum Box City Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 18, 2010 Build your own city! You and your team must work together to build a working community. Use your artistic skills and actually build the houses and businesses that will make your city unique. Want a baseball stadium in your city? Build it! How about a garbage dump in your neighbor’s back yard? Maybe not! Don’t forget the roads! This exciting hands-on program will teach young people how communities develop and the value of teamwork.
    06/17/10	Future Veterinarian Sloan Museum Future Veterinarian Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 17, 2010 Do you love animals and think that you would like to be a veterinarian? If so, join us at Sloan Museum and learn how Veterinarians are like detectives and the best ways to care for your pet. Pre-registration required. For grades 5-8.
    06/17/10	Mom and Me Victorian Tea Sloan Museum Mom and Me Victorian Tea Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum June 17, 2010 Kids and their special adult can join us in the courtyard of Sloan Museum for tea, punch and cookies along with crafts and hands-on activities!
    05/22/10	Air Power Sloan Museum Air Power Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum May 22, 2010 Make it move with air! Send a balloon rocket across the room and launch a film canister rocket. Construct and race a cardstock skimmer in our Skimmer Regatta. Add sails, change the surface it races on…can you figure out how to make yours go the farthest? Pre-registration required. Sponsored by Cars108. For Ages 8-12 years
    05/01/10	Animal Tracks Sloan Museum Animal Tracks Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum May 1, 2010 Use a list of animals common to this area, pictures of their tracks and other resources as you hike along Ligon’s trails. How many different animal tracks can you find? Can you identify them? Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis. For Families. This Event takes place at the Ligon Nature Center.
    04/24/10	Insect Predators Sloan Museum Insect Predators Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum April 24, 2010 Learn about the types of animals that eat insects. Adaptations for eating insects, habitats, and strategies for hunting will be explored. Live animals include a U.S. insect-eating bat, screech owl, flying squirrel, sugar glider and frog. Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis. Pre-registration required. For Families
    04/17/10	Build Your Own Predator Sloan Museum Build Your Own Predator Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum April 17, 2010 What’s your idea of a perfect predator? Would it have long legs for swift chasing? Would it have sharp teeth and long claws? Explore physical adaptations that help predators hunt and prey animals escape while using a large variety of craft materials to design model predator and prey animals. Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis. For Families
    03/27/10	What's For Lunch Sloan Museum What's For Lunch Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum March 27, 2010 It’s eat or be eaten in the Wild Kingdom! Learn how animals develop amazing strategies for catching food . . . and how they avoid becoming dinner themselves! Students learn basic concepts about camouflage, stalking techniques, and more. Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis. Pre-registration required. SEE LIVE ANIMALS!!! For Families.
    03/13/10	Predator Masks Sloan Museum Predator Masks Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum March 13, 2010 Use a large variety of materials and your imagination to create a mask of your favorite predator to take home. Learn about teeth, claws, camouflage and other adaptations that keep these hunters well fed! Sponsored by Chase and B95.Pre-registration required. For familes.
    03/06/10	Carnavore Connection-A Look at Predators Sloan Museum Carnavore Connection-A Look at Predators Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum March 6, 2010 Join Science Alive for a hands-on look at some fascinating predators. We’ll observe specific adaptations that enable the “meat-eaters” to fulfill their roll in the food chain. Observe teeth, claws, cryptic coloration, diverse hunting techniques, and other physical and behavioral characteristics in this live animal presentation. Expect predatory reptiles, amphibians and mammals! Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs.Dean Yeotis. Pre-registration required. SEE LIVE...
    02/27/10	Nocturnal Predators Sloan Museum Nocturnal Predators Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum February 27, 2010 When the sun disappears and darkness falls, many creatures get to work. Learn about the special adaptations of animals that are awake at night. Michigan is home to frogs, snakes, crickets, bats, owls and even wolves that hunt at night. Join a Naturalist from For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum to learn how the food hunt changes at night. Sponsored by Chase and B95. Pre-registration required. For all ages.
    02/24/10	A Morning with Harriet Tubman Sloan Museum A Morning with Harriet Tubman Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum February 24, 2010 Join Harriet Tubman and discover the world of the Underground Railroad, slavery and abolition. Option: make and take Goombe drum. Pre-registration required. For all ages.
    02/20/10	Prehistoric Predators Sloan Museum Prehistoric Predators Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum February 20, 2010 The prehistoric past has included a varied array of ferocious predators. Come, see, and touch fossil bones, teeth, eggs, and coprolites of some of these carnivores. Learn about Tyrannosaurus rex, allosaurus, canis dirus, the saber tooth cat Smilodon fatalis, plus others. Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis. Pre-registration required. For all ages
    02/15/10	Michigan Birds of Prey Sloan Museum Michigan Birds of Prey Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum February 15, 2010 Join us for this up close look at Michigan’s birds of prey. Explore predator / prey relationships as well as conservation and rehabilitation efforts for these magnificent predators. Thispresentation may include a screech owl,a great horned owl, a kestrel falcon and a red tailed hawk. Sponsored by Chase,B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis. Pre-registration required. for all ages LIVE ANIMALS WLL BE THERE!!!
    02/13/10	Valentine Tea Sloan Museum Valentine Tea Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum February 13, 2010 What could be more "romantic" than a Victorian Valentine tea? Come join us for an afternoon reception at Sloan Museum. Enjoy some simple refreshments while learning about Victorian etiquette and pastimes. Relax and have fun as you decorate a parasol and play some old fashioned games. Pre-registration required. Ages: 5 and older
    02/06/10	Owl Pellets Sloan Museum Owl Pellets Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum February 6, 2010 Made of the fur and bones of an owl?s prey, owl pellets are a fascinating way to explore an owl's food web as well as practice classification skills while sorting and identifying the bones you find. Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs.Dean Yeotis. Pre-registration required.
    01/15/10- 02/15/10	Road to the White House Sloan Museum Road to the White House Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum January 15-February 15, 2010 Join Sloan Museum and the Grand Blanc Living History Society for an interactive introduction to presidential history! You'll see a brief presentation and then meet a select group of presidents and first ladies. You might even get a campaign button! Pre-registration required. For all ages.
    01/10/10- 05/02/10	Predators Sloan Museum Predators Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum January 10-May 2, 2010 Do common house cats and the big cats of Africa still have common traits? What is the most dangerous animal in the ocean? Join Sloan Museum as we take you on an adventurous look into the lives of Predators.
    12/10/09	To Survey a State Sloan Museum To Survey a State Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum December 10, 2009 Before Michigan statehood and the waves of pioneers came to the Great Lakes State, surveyors performed their critical and at times dangerous task. Using a combination of historic maps, objects and period costume, Victor Lukasavitz, President of Gould Engineering, outlines the trials and tribulations that faced the early surveyors and settlers of Michigan. Family Event Option: Mini-History Hunt for the kids while the To Survey a State program is underway.
    10/17/09- 01/10/10	Perilous Journeys and the Michigan Pioneer Sloan Museum Perilous Journeys and the Michigan Pioneer Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum October 17, 2009-January 10, 2010 Join the Sloan Museum on a journey through a time when "Michigan Fever" gripped the United States. Using the Erie Canal as a starting point, families and whole communities picked up stakes and moved west. Cheap land prices and the desire for a new life led these pioneers to risk the unknown and settle in Michigan. Listen to the voices of the travelers as you navigate the treacherous waters of Lake Erie and later drive your team of horses through the mud and forest. Home was a plot...
    10/17/09- 01/10/10	Building America's Canals Sloan Museum Building America's Canals Presented by Sloan Museum at Sloan Museum October 17, 2009-January 10, 2010 Erie Canal is an exciting educational exhibit displaying how locks work. This is a nuts-and-bolts affair that presents families with some of the same engineering challenges the nation's founders faced during America's westward expansion. Visitors can construct and operate miniature cranes, locks and aqueducts, and even analyze the costs of various canal systems.

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