Museums & art
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
African American history, art, and community memory in Detroit’s cultural district.
DETROIT / Places to explore / ¼
Places. A thousand stories.
Explore museums, parks, stages, and distinctive neighborhoods across Detroit and nearby cities. Each place comes with its own story and related events.
13 places found
Famous people's places / Detroit – Cass Corridor
Closed – archive entryDetroit Artists Workshop
A cooperative of poets, jazz musicians and artists founded by John Sinclair in the Cass Corridor in 1964, an incubator for Detroit's underground music and arts scene.
Famous people's places / Warren
Detroit Memorial Park East
Michigan's first Black-owned cemetery, founded in 1925 in Warren, where Supremes founder Florence Ballard is buried.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Warrendale
Ford Cemetery
The small Ford family cemetery beside the closed St. Martha's Episcopal Church in Detroit, where Henry and Clara Ford are buried under an ornate iron mortsafe.
Famous people's places / Warren
General Motors Technical Center
Eero Saarinen's 1956 modernist research campus for GM in Warren, with work by Harry Bertoia, Ruth Adler Schnee and Maija Grotell; a National Historic Landmark, still a working GM site.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
“Sixto Rodriguez: Laborer and Poet” mural
Mural of musician Sixto Rodriguez by artist Nicole Macdonald on the Iroquois Apartments in Midtown Detroit, near Wayne State University.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Warrendale
Warrendale
A residential Detroit neighborhood on the far west side, bordered by Dearborn, where rapper Tee Grizzley grew up with his grandmother.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Wayne State University
Detroit's Midtown public research university, founded in 1868 as the Detroit Medical College, whose students and faculty include dozens of famous Detroiters.
Famous people's places / Warren
Lincoln High School (Warren)
South Warren's public high school, where a teenage Marshall Mathers, later Eminem, failed ninth grade three times and dropped out at 17.
Famous people's places / Warren
Macomb Community College (South Campus)
Warren's big community college campus, opened in 1965; horror writer Thomas Ligotti studied at Macomb in the early 1970s.
Famous people's places / Warren
Warren Truck Assembly (Dodge Truck Plant)
A Chrysler truck plant operating since 1938 in Warren, once nicknamed 'Dodge City,' where Contours singer Joe Billingslea worked and led the local UAW.
Famous people's places / Warren
Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic School
Metro Detroit's Ukrainian Catholic school, founded in Hamtramck in 1936 and now based in Warren, where future Ukrainian health minister Ulana Suprun studied in the 1970s.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Midtown
Manoogian Hall
A Wayne State University building in Midtown Detroit, named for industrialist and philanthropist Alex Manoogian and home to the university's language and linguistics programs.
An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
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