Cranbrook CEC

Go Behind the Scenes at Cranbrook

March -June

Cranbrook offers a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes throughout the Cranbrook Community in Behind the Scenes, Exploring Cranbrook's Collections. Visitors will get a sneak preview of the Art Academy Graduate Show, enter the Mineral storage Vault at the Institute of Science, experience the stained glass collection at Cranbrook and more in five separate lectures occurring March through June.

BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour

April 8 & 9, 2010 * 7pm
Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is an international film competition featuring the world's best footage on mountain subjects. For 2010, almost 300 films from approximately 35 countries were entered into the competition.

Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science present North American Début “Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change”

January 31- June, 13, 2010

Bloomfield Hills, MI ---"Cape Farewell – Art & Climate Change" -- the second exhibition in the series Artology: the Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook --explores the most challenging environmental issue of this century and is making its North American début at Cranbrook Institute of Science on January 31, 2010.

Cranbrook Kingswood and Detroit Catholic Central Mark 75 Years of Hockey Competition in 2010 Outdoor Classic

In commemoration of the 75th year of competition in high school hockey between Detroit Catholic Central and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, played an outdoor game at Clark Park in Detroit, Sunday, January 17, 2010. Catholic Central upended Cranbrook 5-2.

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Join Big Bird and Elmo in the Institute's Planetarium

The adventure begins when Hu Hu Zhu, Elmo’s friend from China, visits Sesame Street. Big Bird, Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu take viewers on an exciting discovery of the Sun, Moon, and stars. They learn about the Big Dipper and the North Star and take an imaginary trip to the Moon where they learn that the Moon is a very different place from the Earth. When Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu imagine themselves back on Earth, they celebrate the idea that even though they live in two different countries, they still share the same sky.

Sat. & Sun at 11:30 a.m.