MICHIGAN
Field Trips

The Belle Isle Nature Center provides an insider’s view of an actual beehive and get an up-close view of Michigan wildlife. At the bird observation window allows guests to watch native and migratory birds. It is operated by the Detroit Zoological Society. Fee for parking.

Blandford Nature Center features 143 acres of land and wildlife. It includes a wildlife and interpretive Center, an organic farm, historic buildings and a working sugarbush. Provides an atmosphere to explore, connect and deepen your relationship to the earth.

The Bruce Dice Mineralogical Museum has a rotating display of more than 400 unique geological specimens collected from around the world. Displays include gold nuggets, copper leaves, 100-million-year-old fossils, meteorites, and an interactive ultraviolet case to showcase fluorescent minerals.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, or The Wright, is one of the world’s oldest independent African American museums. For over half a century, the Museum has dedicated itself to exploring and celebrating the rich cultural legacy of African Americans.

Cranbrook Art Museum presents and collects the art, architecture, craft, and design of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries with a special focus on the achievements of artists from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Detroit. 

The finest artisans of the period were commissioned to create handcrafted furniture, tapestries, tiles, stained and leaded glass, and other works of fine and decorative art for the Cranbrook House Garden. Explore their 40 acres featuring plantings, fountains, statuary, lakes and streams & gardens.

The primary focus of Detroit Audubon is to protect birds and their habitats through engaging people, communities, and policymakers in conservation. We strive to bring nature and people together, in a way that serves both.

Visitors to the Detroit’s Children’s Museum will enjoy regular planetarium demonstrations, the People of the World exhibits, a Travel Through History Gallery, Tiny Tikes Preschool Gallery and more.

The Detroit Historical Museum chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century, and much more.

At the Detroit Underground Railroad Historical Society, take a ride on the train that traveled without tracks. Sit in the Harriett Tubman Lecture Room and hear the stories of runaways who, escaping slavery, rested in secret at Second Baptist Church.

The Detroit Zoo is home to more than 2,000 animals of 240 species and has 125 acres of expansive, naturalistic habitats designed to meet the animals’ needs.

The Dossin Great Lakes Museum is a historical maritime museum, located on The Strand on Belle Isle Park along the Detroit River.  The Museum places special interest on Detroit’s role on national and regional maritime history.