Besser Museum Fall Fest
Event Details
Come celebrate the season with a day full of discovery, creativity, and community spirit. The Besser Museum’s Fall Festival is more than an event — it’s a tradition! Saturday, October 4
Event Details
Come celebrate the season with a day full of discovery, creativity, and community spirit. The Besser Museum’s Fall Festival is more than an event — it’s a tradition!
Saturday, October 4 from 12pm to 4pm.
Admission: Adults $5, Seniors (60+) $3, Children $3. Museum Members Free.
Activities Include:
- Pumpkin Patch for Kids
- Face Painting
- Kids Craft Stations
- Apple cider and donuts, hot dogs, popcorn for purchase.
- Carnival Games: try your luck at the fame booths and win fun prizes while supporting a great cause. All proceeds go towards the Family Resource Center Children’s Museum Project.
- Devonian Fossil Hunting – keep what you find!
- Sea lamprey display from Hammond Bay Biological Station.
- Tour the Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage boat.
- Tour the Buildings in the Historic Village
- Local historians Janet Young and Tim Kent host the Discover Northeast Michigan History Exhibit.
- Old fashion games and sing-alongs in the 1912 Spratt Church hosted by the Girls Scouts of St. Paul Lutheran Church
- Rob Abram from “Michigan Rocks” will share his passion about Michigan’s unique stones.
- Local Author Nancy Abram shares newly self-published mystery/crime solving novels.
- Traditional Drumming Demonstration with Gennie Morgan from the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians in the Planetarium @ 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 (no regular planetarium shows during these times).
Time
October 4, 2025 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan
491 Johnson St, Alpena, MI 49707
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