Exhibits

Upcoming Exhibits

And Still They Prospered: Living Through the Great Depression

February 27 - May 8, 2010

The Lorenzo Cultural Center takes a look at one of the most difficult times in United States history. Learn about innovation, courage & perseverance, creativity, cooperation & compassion, escapism and the financial collapse.

• The Way We Worked Show/Hide Details

  The Way We Worked is an exhibition created by the National Archives with the support of the Foundation for the National Archives and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

  Documents the enormous changes in work and the workplace through photographs, highlighting the effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, labor unrest, wars and economic depression on ordinary working Americans.

• Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry during Depression and War Show/Hide Details

  From the Michigan State University Museum

  Explores the dilemmas of Michigan Jews during this period—increasingly at home in Michigan and the United States yet anxious amidst economic depression and rising Nazism, terror and the war abroad.

• Clarke Family Quilt Collection Show/Hide Details

  From the Michigan State University Museum

  Examples from the collection, including quilts and quilt tops completed between 1926 and 1946, reflecting the resurgence of interest in quilting and the domestic arts during the Great Depression.

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Past Exhibits

More Than a Game: How Sports Shape Culture

September 16 - November 22, 2009

• SuperWomen

The Sixties: A Decade that Defined a Generation

February 28 - May 16, 2009

• A Dream Achieved

• Bobby, Martin & John: Once Upon an American Dream

• Ferry Cross the Mersey: The British Invasion

• Michigan Moving Wall

• Oh Freedom Over Me

• Technicolor Dreaming: Psychedelic Posters

• Viola Liuzzo: An Exemplary Woman in Extraordinary Times

A Journey of Hope: Michigan's Immigrant Experience

September 27 - November 23, 2008

• America's Heritage: A History of U.S. Immigration

• Immigration & Caricature: Ethnic Images from the Appel Collection

• A Coummunity between Two Worlds: Arab Americans in Greater Detroit

Michigan's Fight for Freedom: The Civil War Era

February 27 - May 4, 2008

• Answering the Call: Captain John C. Hardy

• Blue & Gray in Black & White: Michigan and the Civil War in Print

• Currency in Conflict: Money of the Civil War

• Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom: The Journey to New York City

Great Lakes, Great Stories: Michigan's Maritime Heritage

October 6 - December 2, 2007

• Era of Elegance

• Great Lakes China

• Michigan's Great Lights

• Exotic Aquatics of the Great Lakes Region

• Life on the Lakes

A Legacy of Service and Courage: The World War II Generation

Febrary - May 2007

• The Tuskegee Airmen

• Faith & Courage: U.S. Chaplains' Service in WWII

• When Humanity Fails

• The Anne Frank Story

• Michigan Women Who Served in WWII

GRAND OPENING · Science and Space Exploration: Imagining the Future

September - December 2006

• Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of American Future

• Children's Science Book Fair

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