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The GRPM Press Room is where our marketing and communications team shares news stories and materials for use by the press.
The Grand Rapids Public Museum is a forward-thinking leader on a mission focused on history, science, and culture. The Museum presents and hosts exhibitions and educational programming leads research and maintains a Collection of over 250,000 artifacts.
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GRPM Expansion Project
- Grand Rapids Public Museum begins construction on $50 million expansion
- Grand Rapids Public Museum begins construction on $50 million expansion
- Grand Rapids Public Museum kicks off $50M expansion project
- ‘Generations in the making’: Grand Rapids Public Museum readies for $50M expansion
- Museum expansion project underway
- Celebratory kick-off to museum construction
- Grand Rapids Public Museum to Get $50M in Upgrades, Including New River Access
- Grand Rapids Public Museum to begin construction on $50 million expansion
- Morning Buzz: October 13
GRPM Research
GRPM Programs & Exhibits
- Grand Rapids Public Museum ensuring Indigenous voices, perspectives reflected in programming, exhibits
- ‘Definitely a hero for me': GR artist creates ofrenda honoring her father, a Civil Rights icon
- Grand Rapids Public Museum is now a ‘Museum for All’ with $2 admission for low-income families!
- Years-long effort to repaint carousel’s hand-carved animals is underway in Grand Rapids
- Come see "Fashion and Nature" at Grand Rapids Public Museum
Clapp Family Mastodon
- When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab
- Construction project unearths unusual burial site
- 'We were holding a piece of history': Road crews discover mastodon bones in Michigan
- Skeleton of Ice Age mastodon, cousin of mammoths, unearthed in Michigan
- Construction Crew Stumbles Upon Mastodon Bones in Michigan
- A conversation on Mastodons and museum news with Dale Robertson from the Grand Rapids Public Museum(09/11/22)