BesserMuseum.org
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Jesse Besser Museum
Description
,Alpena's Jesse Besser Museum is a cultural gem that serves thousands of visitors each year. Jesse Besser Museum, 491 Johnson Street, Alpena, Michigan 49707; Phone (989) 356-2202. As the only accredited museum in the region, it offers changing exhibits, lectures, workshops and classes in art, history and science. Jesse Besser Museum's galleries feature artworks by painters, photographers, potters and other artists drawn from across the area, state and country. The Museum also houses permanent displays, including exhibits of the area's early lumbering and farming industry; the gallery of Early Man - a history of the area's first inhabitants; and the avenue of shops - a realistic look at Alpena during the late 1800s.