Sloan Museum

The Sloan Museum of Discovery is a nonprofit, public hands-on and interactive discovery museum located within the Flint Cultural Center in Flint, Michigan.

Photo: Amancour, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Opening hours:
Tuesday—Saturday: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Sunday: noon—5:00 PM
Email: sloan@sloanlongway.org
Type: Museum
Address: 1221 East Kearsley Street, Flint, MI 48503

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Flint Institute of Arts and The Whiting.

Flint Institute of Arts

Arts center

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The Flint Institute of Arts is located in the Flint Cultural Center in Flint, Michigan, United States. The second largest art museum in the state, it offers exhibitions, interpretive programs, film screenings, concerts, lectures, family events and educational outreach programs to people of various ages, serving over 160,000 adults and children a year. Flint Institute of Arts is situated 490 feet southeast of Sloan Museum.

The Whiting

Theater building

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The Flint Cultural Center is a campus of cultural, scientific, and artistic institutes located in Flint, Michigan, United States. The institutions located on the grounds of the FCC are the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, Sloan Museum, Gloria Coles Flint Public Library, Buick Gallery & Research Center, Robert T. The Whiting is situated 580 feet northeast of Sloan Museum.

Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office

Building

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The Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office is a National Historic Landmark owned by General Motors. A late 19th-century office building located at 316 West Water Street in Flint, Michigan, it was built and occupied by GM's parent, Durant-Dort, followed by Dort Motor Car Company, until 1924. Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office is situated 1 mile southwest of Sloan Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flint and Burton.

Flint

Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Flint is an industrial city an hour northwest of Detroit in Michigan. It was the home of many General Motors factories, including the Buick World Headquarters, Flint has fallen on hard times over the past 30 years due to the decline of the American automotive industry.

Burton

Suburb

Burton is a city in Genesee County, Michigan, United States and a suburb of Flint. The population was 29,715 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 29,420 in 2024. making Burton the second largest city in Genesee County. Burton is situated 3½ miles southeast of Sloan Museum.

Beecher

Suburb

Beecher is a census-designated place in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was first listed as a CDP in 2000. Per the 2020 census, the population was 8,840. Beecher is situated 4½ miles north of Sloan Museum.

Sloan Museum

Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: City of Flint, Genesee, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.02326° or 43° 1′ 24″ north

Longitude

-83.67886° or 83° 40′ 44″ west

Elevation

748 feet (228 metres)

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

86MR28FC+8F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 629024402

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

5010152

Wikidata ID

Q18749198

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