AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the University of Michigan’s Museum of Natural History. It is a natural history museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. A unit of the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the museum is located on the university’s Central Campus and has 22,000 square feet of exhibit space in a building that it shares with three research museums (Anthropology, Zoology, Paleontology). The natural history collections began in 1837, and the current building, the Alexander Ruthven Museums Building, dates to 1928.
The U-M Museum of Natural History is located at 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079. Hours are Monday-Saturday 9-5, Sunday 12-5. The U-M Museum of Natural History will close in its current location on December 30, 2017, reopening next door in the new Biological Science Building in 2019. For more information, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/ummnh