Muskegon Museum of History & Science of the Lakeshore Museum Center — Attraction in Muskegon

I enjoyed this museum as well as learning about the history of Muskegon. Moreover, it was incredibly insightful to learn that the founding of the city was primarily from the lumber industry. As a native of a much larger city, I learned how valuable Muskegon was to progressive cities such as Chicago and New York.

However, what I DIDN'T enjoy was the downstairs exhibits that highlighted key individuals whose families migrated to Muskegon for a better life. In particular, one of the key people highlighted was Pastor Louis McMurray who is African American. The museum has an extremely short testimonial about McMurray's family and how difficult life was in the early days for African Americans in Muskegon, but no FULL BIOGRAPHY is given to Louis McMurray who accomplished a GREAT DEAL despite discrimination and hardship in Muskegon Michigan earlier in his life. I feel that it should be known how prominent Mr. McMurray actually was in Muskegon including the fact that he served as a City Commissioner for years, and that he also has a building named after him due to his accomplishments in the city of Muskegon and beyond!

TO THE MUSEUM STAFF:

PLEASE PROVIDE FULL BIOGRAPHIES OF THE KEY PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO HIGHLIGHT!!! To simply display a short video with LITTLE INFORMATION is not enough!!!

I would award this museum 5 stars, but the fact that I had to do further research on the individuals that the museum highlighted was tragic! I find it funny how the museum has an entire biography on certain individuals, but has left out FULL BIOGRAPHIES on prominent minorities in Muskegon...PLEASE DO A BETTER JOB because Charles Hackley is not the only one that should have a full biography on his life.

If the museum mentions how minorities contributed to Muskegon, then the museum should give a more acceptable tribute of key minorities instead of a few sentences that only highlight the difficulties that minorities faced. Minorities visiting the museum SHOULD SEE that with hard work they can achieve greatness no matter what odds are...

Before anything else, I just want to say thank you for having the sensory bags available! They were the reason that we were able to visit your museum with our nephew in the first place. The kids did enjoy the museum overall, but felt that the activity rooms could use an upgrade if possible! Some of the available toys were simply aged or not as accessible as modern toys/usable artifacts. Curation wise, I definitely got the sense that the museum centred around Muskegon's history; however, I don't feel as compelled to re-visit as I do, say, comparable museums such as the UP Children's Museum or Science North in Ontario. Some possible improvements could be updating some of the displays to more accurately reflect the past twenty or so years, create more interactive displays, and perhaps come up with a more unique display to Muskegon itself. Plenty of other local museums feature similar information on WWII and the different ages of our planet, but is there something particularly different or important about Muskegon or the county that could be featured in a new display? Something like this would make me want...

Decided to spend my rainy morning indoors at the museum. Definitely not what I was expecting, but I kinda preferred it that way! The museum has a heavy focus on time periods and I loved it because other science museums I've been do focus heavily on animals and other wildlife, or its just too much information to hold my attention. I learned a lot! The Gift shop was small and cute, but I didn't take anything home. Instead I donated to their cash donation box on the way out the door, which I highly recommend! I also really enjoyed their contemporary exhibit on WW2. I didn't realize how vast Muskegon's...