Michigan

Michigan Archaeology Month takes place in October. Information is posted on the following Web site in August: http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17445_19273_19325---,00.html

The University of Michigan Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
The Kelsey Museum is temporarily closing its galleries to the public as of August 16, 2007. The museum will open again in 2009 after renovations are complete. Until then, an online exhibit called Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC—AD 700) is available at www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/index.html. For more information, call 734-764-9304.

The Van Andel Museum Center of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids
The Van Andel Museum Center of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids offers many exhibits including F is for Fossils. F is for Fossils features remains of extinct Michigan ice age mammals, casts of dinosaur fossils, and fossilized remains of strange forms of marine life that existed hundreds of millions of years ago when a shallow saltwater sea covered much of the Midwest. For more information, call 616-456-3977, or visit its Web site at: www.grmuseum.org.

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