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Held every spring, FlashFest brings activities and big name musicians to campus.
Kent State, a public research university founded 1912 as a teachers' college, offers 300 degree programs on eight campuses. The main campus in Kent houses 28,800 of the system's 42,500 students. Programs include nursing, liquid crystals, business, history, library science, aeronautics, journalism and fashion design.
May 4 Memorial
The May 4th Visitors Center surrounds the area where the May 4th Shootings occurred. The Visitors Center has an exhibit that helps provide context to the shootings including larger scale conflicts such as the Vietnam War. Informational packets are available near the site when the Visitors Center is closed. Often offers special programming around May 4th.
Kent State Fashion Museum
The Kent State University Fashion Museum is in Rockwell Hall, and features historical and cutting-edge articles of fashion.
Local history of the city and residents, the railroad that passes through the town, and Kent State University.
Hearing Aid Museum
Created by accident in the 1960s due to a misprint in a news article, this museum of hearing aid technology that houses over 3000 hearing aids, making it among the largest collections in the world. The collection includes devices and patents dating back from 1830's to the digital age.
A museum about museums. Has rotating exhibits that are usually interactive.