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The museum is touted as one of the finest art museums in the Midwest. Among the highlights of its permanent collection is "Tornado Over Kansas," by John Steuart Curry (one of three leading painters, along with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, identified as Regionalists and known for their canvases celebrating the rural Midwest.)
The Muskegon Museum of Art is an art museum in Muskegon, Michigan. Founded as the Hackley Art Gallery in 1912 through a bequest by lumber magnate Charles Hackley, the museum is located in the Muskegon Historic District. Highlights from its collection of 5,500 works, including paintings like Tornado over Kansas (1929) by John Steuart Curry and New York Restaurant (1922) by Edward Hopper, have been displayed across 18,675 sq. ft. of galleries since the museum unveiled an expansion in 2025.
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Featuring the USS LST 393, a World War II amphibious landing ship, one of only two Landing Ship Tanks that remain from the war.
Muskegon also berths the S.S. Milwaukee Clipper a former car ferry that traveled the same route as Lake Express does today. The boat is in the middle of a long process of being restored to its original form, but in the mean time is open for tours and hosts a museum aboard the vessel with information on both the Milwaukee Clipper, as well as the history of Maritime in Muskegon. Muskegon’s entire history surrounds around being a port for commerce or travel, and this is an image the city has embraced.
Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum
Formerly known as the Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum, the USS Silversides Museum features the USS Silversides, a World War II submarine and the USCGC McLane, a Prohibition-era United States Coast Guard cutter.