Friday Fun: Twilight Zone’s 50th Anniversary

Celebrate the Twilight Zone’s 50th Anniversary by watching “Time Enought At Last” from November 20, 1959!

Part 1:

Part of the ending reenacted with Legos!

 

Visit the DIA for free!

On Sunday, July 19, 2009, general admission to the Detroit Institute of Arts is free. 

It is Target Free Family Sunday! 

 http://www.dia.org/calendar/friday_nights/item.asp?webitemid=1919

Free Admission to Detroit Historical Museum during July

During the month of July 2009, admission to the Detroit Historical Museum is FREE thanks to PVS Chemicals.

Hours to the Museum are Wed. – Fri. 9:30 AM to 3 PM, Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sunday 12 PM to 5 PM.

For more details:  http://detroithistorical.org/main/dhm/hours.aspx

In addition, celebrate Detroit’s 308th birthday at the museum on Sunday July 26th from 1 to 4 PM.  Admission to this event is also free (and there will be cake)!

Visit http://detroithistorical.org/main/calendar_item.aspx?ID=116 for more event details.

Free Admissions around Detroit

Museums on us© from Bank of America

Present your ID and a Bank of America ATM, credit, or check card at participating museums on the first full weekend of every month and your admission is free!

In the Detroit area, participating museums are:

• The Henry Ford (no Sundays)
• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (no Sundays)
• Motown Museum (closed Sundays)
• Detroit Science Center

For more information and a calendar, go to http://museums.bankofamerica.com.

Target sponsored events

• The Henry Ford – Free admission and parking on Labor Day 2009 (Monday, September 7)
• Arab American National Museum –Free admission every Sunday
• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History – Free admission every first Sunday. For dates, click here.

Museum Adventure Pass

Don’t forget the Museum Adventure Pass available for check out at local libraries (a list of participating libraries is here).

Guidelines from the Museum Adventure Pass website:

“Check out a Museum Adventure Pass using your valid library card at any library location. Libraries have a limited number of passes for each participating organization. Passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be reserved, renewed or requested through interlibrary loan. One Museum Adventure Pass may be checked out per person, per loan period. The loan period is SEVEN DAYS. Up to two or four people may be admitted on each pass. (See the list for which organizations admit 2 and which admit 4.) Choose the museum you would like to visit and bring the card for that museum to the circulation desk. The library will give you a date-due slip that admits you into the museum through the date printed on the slip. After this date, the pass expires. You do not need to return it to your library.”

Others

• Detroit Institute of Arts - free admission on Fridays for Detroit residents
• Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Belle Isle – admission is always free; donations accepted
• Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit – free admission unless otherwise indicated
• Detroit Children’s Museum – general admission is free
• Dearborn Historical Museum – admission is always free; donations accepted
• River Raisin Battlefield
• Holocaust Memorial Center – free admission; donations appreciated

Free Admission to Henry Ford Museum

During Target Family Days, admission to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is free! 

The dates for Target Family Days are January 19, 2009 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), February 16, 2009 (Presidents’ Day), and September 7, 2009 (Labor Day).

Friday Fun: Biking in Detroit

See this site, http://www.m-bike.org/, which is “promoting safe and convenient bicycling in Metro Detroit.”

The Pure Michigan website has a list of suggested biking spots in the Metro Detroit area.

DetroitSynergy is another site with a schedule of biking events in Detroit.

Wheelhouse Detroit at the Detroit International Riverwalk rents and sells bicycles, related equipment and offers bike tours of the city.

Detroit Neighborhood Bike Tours

Tour de Troit, Saturday September 20th 

Friday Fun Site!

Become an archaeologist and a musuem curator at this interactive site created by the University of Chicago entitled Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History!

http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/interactives/DigIntoHistory.html

Chocolate: The Exhibition

The Henry Ford is hosting a new exhibit all about chocolate!  The exhibit traces the history of chocolate from the time of the Aztecs and Mayans in Mexico and Central America through present day.  Samples will be availabe on certain weekends all summer.  There will even be a Chocolate Café with delicious treats available for purchase. 

‘Chocolate: The Exhibition’ opens May 31 and runs through September 7 at the Henry Ford Museum.  The exhibit is free with admission to the museum.

Read the article at: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805290463

2,000th visit

 

Over the weekend, the DALNET blog received its 2000th site visit. 

Thanks for all your support!

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