Museums & art / Dearborn
Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
American ingenuity on a grand scale: cars, locomotives, aviation, and objects that tell stories of social change.
01 / The story of this place
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Dearborn’s Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation goes well beyond automobiles. Transportation, industry, and everyday life meet here, with Rosa Parks’ bus and the presidential limousine associated with John F. Kennedy among its powerful objects. Exhibitions connect technological change to American society. The museum belongs to The Henry Ford cultural campus; neighboring Greenfield Village is a separate experience rather than another gallery inside the museum.
- Rosa Parks’ bus
- Presidential vehicles and transportation history
- American innovation and everyday objects
Famous Detroiters
Famous people tied to this place 2
Lexicon entries for the people who lived, worked, performed or liked to spend time here.
- Henry Ford 1863–1947 · automaker, industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company
Founded
The history museum and open-air village he founded; it holds his Quadricycle and a replica of the Bagley Avenue workshop.
- Rosa Parks 1913–2005 · civil rights activist
Memorial
The museum displays the restored Montgomery city bus on which she was arrested in 1955.
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