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Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

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Scarab Club

Detroit artists' club and gallery in the Cultural Center district, hosting exhibitions and creative programs since 1913.

217 Farnsworth St, Detroit, MI 48202 · Detroit, MI

About Scarab Club

A nonprofit membership club for artists and art lovers, the venue presents exhibitions along with music, literary, dance, and other creative programming. It occupies a building on Farnsworth Street in Detroit's Cultural Center Historic District, close to the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Science Center. Michigan recognized it as a state historic site in 1974, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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    Detroit Institute of Arts

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