MLK Free Community Day at the Muskegon Museum of Art

Business News |Jan 6, 2017|1 min read

Monday, January 16, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

 

To honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Muskegon Museum of Art will be open Monday, January 16, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, with special activities and free admission for all. The Community Day is sponsored by Meijer.

Activities will include:

  • Art and craft project in the classroom
  • Muskegon High School AP Art Student docents in the galleries, who will talk about various artworks that are on display.
  • Reading station, with a volunteer reader, in The Preacher and His Congregation exhibition gallery. The exhibition displays photographs of the life of a 1970s circuit preacher and his congregation.
  • Up from the Bottoms, a documentary film following the personal stories of African-Americans, now in their 80s and 90s who migrated north in the 1940s to the war factories of Muskegon Michigan, will be shown on the hour throughout the day.