Summer Camps

Camp at Cranbrook offers a wide range of options designed to suit any need or interest. The chance to work in an actual artist’s studio, study fossils that are more than a hundred million years old, swim in a natatorium designed by an internationally renowned architect, or create your own art museum and select the art that goes in it, whatever your camper’s age or aspiration the Cranbrook Camp experience is never mundane. Open a world of creativity, exploration, and discovery for your child!

Cranbrook Art Museum

Spend your summer looking, learning, and creating at Cranbrook Art Museum!

Hands-on, minds-on making in an open-ended, fun environment
Our camps introduce a variety of materials and concepts—evoking curiosity and honing critical thinking—while encouraging individual creativity and self-expression. We’re all about process, not product. 
 
Look at artwork in the museum
Create Campers spend lots of time each week in the museum vaults and galleries; looking and learning about contemporary art. Each project is inspired by artworks they can see and interact within the museum. We use these as a jumping-off point to create and design!
 
Learn from artists
Our Teaching Artists are experienced artists, designers, and educators! Teaching Artists connect concepts behind artwork in the museum, with age-appropriate projects and techniques. Create Camps teach kids how to observe, interpret, and tap into their creativity!

Cranbrook Institute of Science

Cranbrook Institute of Science's Explore Camps give inquisitive campers from kindergarten through eighth grade the opportunity to dive deeper into science in a unique and safe environment! Join us for one week, or attend every week, since they do not repeat, to uncover the treasures of the Institute of Science and Cranbrook’s 319-acre campus!  

Take a journey of discovery around the Institute of Science and the greater Cranbrook campus. Along the way, explore geology, paleontology, chemistry, biology, engineering, and astronomy.

Cranbrook Schools

Each summer, Cranbrook Schools Summer Camps host over 1,800 campers hailing from 20 states and nine countries to experience summer camp on Cranbrook’s historic 319-acre campus. Learn about our traditional, multi-activity day camps as well as our specialty camps in art, robotics, sports, STEM, theatre, and writing. Afford your child a Cranbrook summer experience this summer!