Current Exhibition
GR Stories
The 14th Amendment:
Learning, Living, and Loving in Grand Rapids
February 1 – 28, 2026
GR Stories - Created by the Grand Rapids Public Museum, this exhibit explores the neighborhoods of West Michigan, filling the gap of knowledge about our history in ways that are not available publicly to students or residents of the region.
GR Stories explores how “history happens here” by sharing the relationship that Grand Rapids has to the broad history of America.
The constitution, immigration patterns, and social movements of the U.S. all frame the life of West Michigan, yet, it does so differently in different places. GR Stories share how history played out in our community through critical Supreme Court decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), the Fair Housing Act (1968), and Loving v. Virginia (1967).