Museums & art / Midtown

Detroit Historical Museum

Old streets, factory stories, and musical memories bring Detroit’s past within reach.

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Detroit Historical Museum · Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Detroit Historical Museum tells the city’s story through everyday life as well as major change. The recreated streets of Streets of Old Detroit sit alongside accounts of automobile manufacturing, local communities, and cultural life. It makes an especially useful early stop if you want context for the neighborhoods and landmarks you will encounter later in your trip.

Streets of Old Detroit
The city’s automobile-manufacturing story
Detroit’s cultural and community history

Famous Detroiters

Famous people tied to this place 3

Lexicon entries for the people who lived, worked, performed or liked to spend time here.

Anna Sui born 1955 · fashion designer
Related place
Her designs appeared here in the 2015 exhibition Fashion D.Fined on the past, present and future of Detroit fashion.
Kevin Saunderson born 1964 · DJ, record producer, label owner
Memorial
The museum put his mixing board on display after its 2012 renovation.
Corrado Parducci 1900–1981 · architectural sculptor
Worked here
Midtown museum of Detroit history, whose 1951 building includes Parducci's work.