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Henry Ford, son of a farmer, built his first car in Detroit in 1896. There was nothing too amazing about this feat, because cars had been around for some time. What was unique to Ford's invention was the moving assembly line, which enabled... see full details
Car buffs from the world over are drawn to Detroit’s Automotive Hall of Fame, close to the Henry Ford Museum in Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, which is the public program and exhibition centre for the worldwide motor vehicle industry. The venue features entertaining and enlightening... see full details
Visitors to Detroit can tour the family home of renowned automotive pioneer Henry Ford and his wife, Clara, in Dearborn. The estate is a National Historic Landmark that is now part of the campus of the University of Michigan. The Fords lived on... see full details
The Detroit Historical Museum in Downtown allows visitors the chance to tour the scope of the city’s history, from Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac’s landing on the banks of the Detroit River through the city’s emergence as an industrial capital. In the museum it... see full details
America's fifth-largest fine arts museum boasts more than 100 galleries displaying a collection of 65,000 works, ranging from mummies to Matisse, and Asian antiquities to American Impressionists. The Museum is situated in Downtown Detroit. The highlights include the masterpieces of Rembrandt, Rubens, Bureghel the Elder,... see full details
Detroit’s Motown sound originated in two simple buildings on West Grand Boulevard, Downtown, at Hitsville U.S.A. Visitors can see the original control room and recording studio where stars like the Jackson Five, Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder made hit records between 1959 and 1972.... see full details