Come face to face with a full-sized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton cast and examines natural selection and evolution by exploring the question "Are birds the descendants of dinosaurs?"

This exhibit presents climatic variations that have buried Michigan under ice over and over again. Hands-on interactives and visual diagrams help visitors explore issues like seasons, heat distribution and how heat travels across the globe.

This exhibit examines extinction through the example of the mastodon, which used to be plentiful in Michigan during the last ice age.

The rich culture of Great Lakes native peoples reflects a complex connection between objects, practices and the environment.

Every object - a pair of shoes, a necklace, a flag - holds different meanings for different people, and how we decode objects varies depending on culture, previous experience and prior knowledge.

It's all about life! Blues Life Lab features interactive learning stations with hands-on lab experiments that produce exciting and unpredictable results.

Cranbrook Institute of Science's newest gallery highlights more than 100 Native American objects from the Institute's collections in an exhibit entitled By Native Hands.

Retained as originally created, these dioramas of Michigan plant associations capture both a reminder of the Institute's past and a glimpse of habitats increasingly threatened throughout the state.

Lose your fear of physics with hands-on experiments that demonstrate the basic yet profound concepts of matter in motion.

Was Michigan once located in the tropics? Will California crumble into the Pacific Ocean? The earth is constantly changing right under your feet and the exciting results range from earthquakes and volcanoes to granite and diamonds.

The Astronomy Lobby includes ViewSpace, a self-updating exhibit from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Cranbrook founder George Booth started this mineral collection in 1926 with only a few hundred specimens. Since then, it has grown to more than 11,000 specimens, including ..

Light Lab, an ingeniously subtle science lesson, is a space designed to encourage curiosity.

See the power of water on the bed of an ancient sea, make a storm, and find out how much of your body is water.