Founded in 1957, the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association is a regional art center offering classes for adults, teenagers and children. Over 100 classes are offered each term in media such as pottery, jewelry, painting, drawing, printmaking, art history, calligraphy, watercolor, pastels and many more. The BBAA also has a changing exhibition schedule in its galleries showing work from students, faculty, and community groups as well as national touring exhibitions. The BBAA has a Gallery Shop where works of art can be rented or purchased. Workshops, tours, summer Art Camp, lectures, fairs and a variety of special events are also offered. The BBAA is located on the corner of Cranbrook and Fourteen Mile Road. Please call for information on classes, programs or becoming a member at (248) 644-0866 or fax (248) 644-7904.

Recognized throughout the world as an arts and architecture showcase and as a teaching center, the Cranbrook Academy of Arts is the only institution in the country devoted entirely to graduate educaiton in fine arts.

The museum is a regioinal art center with international impact, playing a vital role in information and engaging the local communitiy in a dialogue about contemporary, cultural and social issues. Visitors to the museum are exposed to art and ideas that cannot be seen or experienced anywhere else in the area as well as The Cranbrook Collection, the museum's permanent collection which celebrates the history of Cranbrook through objects made by the people who studied or taught in the community since its inception.

Cranbrook House and Gardens stands as a centerpiece of Cranbrook's 315-acre National Historic Landmark campus. From May through October, visitors can experience the grandeur of both the House and Gardens with guided and self-guided tours available. Cranbrook House and Gardens was once the home of newspaper mogul George G. Booth and his wife, Elle Scripps Booth. The Booths built the estate in 1908 on a neglected farmstead and planted the gardens to replace overgrown fields. Today the terrace of the English manor house overlooks a sunken garden, framed by fieldstone walls. More than 5,000 annuals form colorful patterson in the sunny space.

Cranbrook Institute of Science is a natural history and science museum that fosters in its audiences a passion for understanding the world around them and a lifelong love of learning. Through its broadly based educational programs, its permanent and changing exhibits and its collections and research, the Institute develops a scientifically literate public able to cope with today's knowledge-based society. Cranbrook Institute of Science generates the enthusiasm for learning about the natural world that will produce the scientists of tomorrow.

Established in 1928 to preserve and display three dimensional objects depicting how people lived in the past and how Detroit continues to grow and progress. Featuring the "Streets of Old Detroit", a recreation of the city's main street and shops as they were in the 1800's. The Museum hosts a variety of exhibits relevant to Detroit.

Known for the fantastic mural by Diego Rivera, "Detroit Industry", the DIA boasts works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Matisse. A Detroit showpiece for more than 50 years, the Detroit Institute of Arts with its Italian Renassance-style main building and its two wings houses 100 galleries that take you to ancient Egypt, medieval England, and other periods in history. There are ancient mummies along with knights' armor.

The mission of The New Detroit Science Center is to inspire Detroit area children and their families to discover and appreciate science, technology and engineering. The Detroit Science Center, founded by Detroit businessman and philanthropist Dexter Ferry nearly 30 years ago, was among the first centers for scientific exploration and learning in the country to include an IMAX® Dome Theatre. An exhibit floor and program plan encouraged hands-on interaction, exploration and study of science and technology. Plans to transform the Detroit Science Center into a leading center for science education began in late 1998. In December 1999, the Science Center broke ground on its $30 million expansion and renovation. The New Detroit Science Center reopened in 2001 as the centerpiece of the Detroit 300 festivities.

America's greatest History Attraction. The world-famous Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village founded by Henry Ford in 1929, consists of 93 acres, including 12 acres of museum floorspace. Historical information spanning more thatn 300 years from the 1600s to the present, explores the sweeping changes that transformed America from a rual, agrarian society into an industrial nation.

The first major holocaust museum in the country documents the horror of the Holocaust and the events leading to it. It also serves as a resource and research center with information on Jewish history and culture. Located on Jewish Community Campus at Maple Road, this center documents the history of the Holocaust with exhibits, videotape presentations, photographs, dioramas and a memorial flame. The Morris and Emma Schaver Library and Archives is dedicated to the study of the Holocaust and Jewish history, culture and genealogy. Outside the memorial center is the Benard Maas Garden of the Righteous. Open Sunday through Thursday 10am-3:30pm, Friday 9am-noon in September through June; hours vary the rest of the year. Closed holidays.

The Woodward Dream Cruise is a mid-summer classic that celebrates the cars, music, and memories of crusin' in the fifties and sixties in the place that put America on wheels. The world's largest one-day celebration of the car culture attracts over 1.5 million visitors, 30,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collecotr and special interest vehicles, involoves the nine host cites of Berkley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Towhship, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Pontiac, and Royal Oak, traverses a 16-mile route; and supports over 30 local charities. It is held the thrid Saturday in August.