Art, Culture & Theater

Air Zoo

The Air Zoo is a highly charged, multi-sensory atmosphere that goes beyond anything you've ever seen. Featuring more than 50 rare and historic aircraft, amusement park-style rides, Full-Motion Flight Simulators, RealD 3D/4D Missions Theater, as well as historical exhibits and educational activities.

Bangor Historical Society

This hidden gem is located right on the main street in Bangor. It showcases not only the history of Bangor, with Bangor memorabilia, model trains, and Native American Artifacts, but is also home to the Edwin Foster Trophy Collection, a no less than amazing taxidermy display of exotic animals you can see nowhere else around these parts!

Bloomingdale Depot Museum

Visit the historic Depot Museum, the only original depot left on the Kal Haven Trail between South Haven and Kalamazoo. The museum features displays and artifacts of the oil, rail, and lumber industries and local heritage of the Bloomingdale area. The Museum also features a history room, old iron toys, a miniature train display and a telegraph display. 

Blue Coast Artists

The Blue Coast Artists Tour offers a behind-the-scenes look into the studios of working artists, who work in various media including pottery, glass, photography, metal smithing, welding, lost wax casting, and painting. The group includes 12 juried, working artist studio members, as well as 15 other art and cultural points of interest. See individual member studios information for additional hours.

Blue Star Studio of Wood & Glass

The studio of artist Barbara Hogarth is a multimedia experience, offering ideal gifts or objects for your home. Barb creates decorative turned wood pieces, functional items, Shaker boxes, marquetry, blown glass vessels, stained glass boxes and panels, and more! Blue Star Wood and Glass is a member of the Blue Coast Artist group, and is located 1.5 miles north of Glenn, MI.

Covert Historical Museum

Preserving Covert's past for the generations of the future, for education and enjoyment today. We have: a permanent collection of antiques, mainly from the 1900's; tools; clothes; toys; school items; medicines; and "grandmother's trunk."

Forever Curious Children's Museum

Fun for all ages and abilities! Experience exhibits and activities including magnets, discovery in the dark, arts and crafts, mirrors, bubbles and trains! Dress up, play music, dream, learn, explore!

Foundry Hall

Foundry Hall's community music programs are designed to all people regardless of age, skill or financial status. They offer private and group instruction. Master classes, song shares, jam sessions, open mic & another opportunity for learning, sharing & continuing your music progress on a variety of instruments. We also offer workshops & instruction, including piano tuning, music therapy & history.

Gilmore Car Museum

The Mission of the Gilmore Car Museum is to tell the history of America through the automobile. We foster experiences which connect people with the history, heritage, and social impact of the automobile through collecting, preserving, and interpreting its story. 

Historical Association of South Haven

The Historical Association of South Haven's history through programs and publications. Collecting and preserving archives of the South Haven area. Enhancing public support for the preservation of South Haven's history. The Hartman School building houses our exhibits and archives and provides space for our programs. If you are interested in South Haven's era in the 1940-50's, you will not be disappointed.

Khnemu Studio

Enjoy the ambiance of this 1890's farm estate, complete with a restored barn which houses a unique contemporary fine art and craft gallery and the working studio of ceramic artist Dawn Soltysiak. The studio and gallery feature exhibits, workshops, classes and an on-going display of work by artists. Experience the beauty of the resident farm animals including peacocks, ducks and free-range exotic chickens.

Kruger Comics

We carry comic books (new and old), toys, collectibles and gaming (table top, RPG, cards). We are true believers that will help you discover the hero within.

Lawton Heritage Museum

The Lawton Heritage Museum is nestled in the wine cellars of the Lawton Lions Heritage Community Center. The center itself is a unique architectural structure of cobblestone located in the heart of the “Fruit Belt” of southwest Michigan. The 1903 structure, a state and national historic site, is the state’s oldest standing winery building which makes it a most appropriate setting for the Museum.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum

Constructed in 1857, the Liberty Hyde Bailey museum is one of the oldest standing homes in South Haven and was the principal building of the 80-acre Bailey farm that pioneered peach and apple farming along Michigan's Fruit Belt. This National Historic Site honors the work and family of Liberty Hyde Bailey and chronicles South Haven's rich agricultural heritage.

 

Michigan Flywheelers Museum

The Michigan Flywheelers Museum holds one of the largest annual "Antique Engine and Tractor Shows" in the state of Michigan every September. This group of volunteers is a 501(c)(3) organization of volunteers dedicated to the restoration and preservation of antique gas and steam engines and tractors. Open for season Memorial Day Weekend.