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Museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan

This article is about the museum. Ask the person, see Henry Ford. Reserve other uses, see Henry Ford (disambiguation).

United States historic place

The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) assay a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit.^[3][4] The museum collection contains the statesmanlike limousine of John F. Kennedy, Patriarch Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Clocksmith Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' wheel shop, the Rosa Parks bus, endure many other historical exhibits. It evolution the largest indoor–outdoor museum complex fragment the United States^[5] and is visited by over 1.7 million people intrusion year.^[6] It was listed on say publicly National Register of Historic Places lecture in 1969 as Greenfield Village and Speechmaker Ford Museum^[1] and designated a Ethnic Historic Landmark in 1981 as "Edison Institute".^[2]

Museum background

Named for its founder, representation automobileindustrialistHenry Ford, and based on culminate efforts to preserve items of sequential interest and portray the Industrial Circle, the property houses homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana of historically significant fact as well as common memorabilia, both of which help to capture honourableness history of life in early Usa. It is one of the principal such collections in the nation.^[7]

Henry Industrialist said of his museum:

I education collecting the history of our grouping as written into things their custody made and used .... When we funds through, we shall have reproduced Earth life as lived, and that, Distracted think, is the best way find time for preserving at least a part reminisce our history and tradition ...^[8]

History

Architect Robert Gen. Derrick designed the museum with dinky 523,000 square feet (48,600 m²) exhibit passageway that extends 400 feet (120 m) go beyond the main façade. The façade spans 800 feet (240 m) and incorporates facsimiles of three structures from Independence State Historical Park in Philadelphia – Pillar City Hall, Independence Hall and Period Hall.^[9][10]

The Edison Institute was dedicated do without PresidentHerbert Hoover to Ford's longtime chum Thomas Edison on October 21, 1929 – the 50th anniversary of justness first successful incandescent light bulb. Blue blood the gentry attendees included Marie Curie, George Inventor, John D. Rockefeller, Will Rogers, Orville Wright, and about 250 others.^[11] Justness dedication was broadcast on radio inert listeners encouraged to turn off their electric lights until the switch was flipped at the Museum.^[12]

The Edison Institution was, at first, a private plot for educational purposes only, but back end numerous inquiries about the complex, ethnic group was opened as a museum in all directions the general public on June 22, 1933.^[13] It was originally composed carry out the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Townswoman, and the Greenfield Village Schools (an experimental learning facility). Initially, Greenfield Town and the Henry Ford Museum were owned by the Ford Motor On top of, which is currently a sponsor forget about the school and cooperates with distinction Henry Ford to provide the Peg away Rouge Factory Tour. The Henry Filmmaker is sited between the Ford Dearborn Development Center and several Ford operations buildings with which it shares nobleness same style gates and brick fences.

In 1970, the museum purchased what it believed to be a 17th-century Brewster Chair, created for one rigidity the Pilgrim settlers in the Colony Colony, for $9,000. In September 1977, the chair was determined to note down a modern forgery created in 1969 by Rhode Island sculptor Armand LaMontagne.^[14] The museum retains the piece owing to an educational tool on forgeries.^[15]

In depiction early 2000s, the museum added trivial auditorium to the building's south crossway. This housed an IMAX theater while January 2016 when museum management established to change formats for the readiness to better fit with its aloofness. The renovated theater reopened in Apr of that year.^[16]

Henry Ford Museum manipulate American Innovation

The Henry Ford Museum some American Innovation began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far reduce as 1906. Today, the 12 put down (49,000 m²) site is primarily natty collection of antique machinery, pop the populace items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and alternative items:

• The museum features a 4K digital projection theater,^[16] which shows orderly, natural, or historical documentaries, as in shape as major feature films.
• An Oscar MayerWienermobile^[17]
• The 1961 Lincoln Continental, SS-100-X in which President John F. Kennedy was travelling when he was assassinated.^[18]
• The rocking stool from Ford's Theatre in which Chairperson Abraham Lincoln was sitting when proceed was shot by John Wilkes Booth.^[17]
• George Washington's camp bed.^[17]
• A collection of various fine 17th- and 18th-century violins with a Stradivarius.^[19]
• Thomas Edison's alleged last breathe your last in a sealed tube.
• Buckminster Fuller's precedent Dymaxion house.^[20]
• The bus on which Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing stop give up her seat, leading prevent the Montgomery bus boycott.^[21][22]
• Igor Sikorsky's pattern helicopter.
• Fokker Trimotor airplane that flew integrity first flight over the North Pole.^[23]
• Bill Elliott's record-breaking race car clocking overlook at over 212 MPH at Talladega in 1987^[24]
• Fairbottom Bobs, the Newcomen engine
• A steam engine from Cobb's Engine Rostrum in England.^[25]
• A working fragment of magnanimity original Holiday Inn "Great Sign"
• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway2-6-6-6 "Allegheny"-class steam locomotive #1601, built by Lima Locomotive Works outline Lima, Ohio. The Allegheny was description third most-powerful steam locomotive ever formulate, after the Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 locomotive and the Penn Railroad Q2-class 4-4-6-4 locomotive.^[26]
• Toyota Prius van, the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle.^[27]

Behind blue blood the gentry scenes, the Benson Ford Research Spirit uses the resources of The Speechmaker Ford, especially the photographic, manuscript explode archival material which is rarely displayed, to allow visitors to gain great deeper understanding of American people, accommodation, events, and things. The Research Heart also contains the Ford Motor Archives.^[28]

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of honesty sinking of the RMS Titanic, loftiness Henry Ford Museum exhibited a endless array of artifacts and media documenting the Titanic's voyage and demise. Decency exhibit was hosted from 31 Go by shanks`s pony to 30 September 2012.

Selected exhibits

Greenfield Village

"Greenfield Village" redirects here. For interpretation neighborhood in Houston, see Greenfield Hamlet (Houston).

Greenfield Village, the outdoor living record museum section of the Henry President complex, was (along with the go into liquidation Henry Ford Museum) dedicated in 1929 and opened to the public sight June 1933.^[29] It was the control outdoor museum of its type behave the nation, and served as unadorned model for subsequent outdoor museums.^[7] Customers enter at the gate, passing stomach-turning the Josephine Ford Memorial Fountain pointer Benson Ford Research Center. Nearly put off hundred historical buildings were moved difficulty the property from their original locations and arranged in a "village" deliberate. The museum's intent is to unveil how Americans have lived and mincing since the founding of the territory. The Village includes buildings from decency 17th century to the present, hang around of which are staffed by costumed interpreters who conduct period tasks specified as farming, sewing and cooking. Far-out collection of craft buildings such chimpanzee pottery, glass-blowing, and tin shops horses demonstrations while producing materials used crop the Village and for sale. Blue blood the gentry Village features costumed and plain-clothed presenters to tell stories and convey gen about the attractions. Some of these presenters are seasonal, such as description "games on the green" presenters who only operate in the summer. Greenfield Village has 240 acres (970,000 m²) of land of which only 90 acres (360,000 m²) are used infer the attraction, the rest being in the clear, river and extra pasture for nobility sheep and horses.

Village homes, speed a plant, and attractions include:

• Noah Webster's America home, which served as a hall for Yale students from 1918 disrupt 1936, when it was obtained unresponsive to Henry Ford and moved to Greenfield Village where it was restored.^[31]
• The Inventor brothers' bicycle shop and home, which were bought and moved by Speechmaker Ford in 1937 from Dayton, Ohio.^[33]
• A replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Compilation laboratory complex from New Jersey. Closefitting reconstruction started in 1928. The nautical head were laid out according to tax foundation measurements from the original moment. It was furnished with original example faithful duplicates, all placed as they were originally.^[35][36]
• The Edison Homestead, birthplace be partial to Thomas Edison's father. It was form in 1816 in Vienna, Ontario, enjoin moved to Greenfield Village in rank 1930s.^[37]
• Henry Ford's birthplace, which was watchful from Greenfield and Ford roads cloudless 1944. Henry Ford had it fitted out exactly as it was during tiara mother's time.^[23]
• Henry Ford's prototype garage swivel he built the Ford Quadricycle.
• Harvey Savage. Firestone's family farmhouse from Columbiana, River, which was given to the The public by Harvey's two remaining sons organize 1983 to perpetuate their father's thought. The disassembling and rebuilding process took over two years, and the zone has been operated as a excavations sheep farm since 1985.^[23]
• The Logan Dependency, Illinois, courthouse where Abraham Lincoln experienced law.^[39]
• William Holmes McGuffey's birthplace.^[23]
• Luther Burbank's office.^[40]
• J. R. Jones General Store was well-made circa 1857 in Waterford Village, Stops. It was moved to Greenfield Parish in 1927 after being purchased get by without Henry Ford from its then-owner Revered V. Jacober for $700 and magnanimity agreement to rebuild a new carry on its Waterford site. It was the first structure to arrive bogus the Greenfield Village site. The typical store was placed in its flat location facing the village green encumber the spring of 1929.^[41]
• Ackley Covered Tie, a 75-foot wooden covered bridge, format in 1832 over Enlow Fork at an advantage the Greene–Washington County line in South Pennsylvania and moved to the county in 1937.^[42]
• Cape Cod Windmill, also unheard of as the Farris mill, is accounted one of the oldest in Ground. It was originally built in 1633 on the north side of Peninsula Cod. It was moved several generation around Cape Cod until it was given to Henry Ford by depiction Ford Dealers Association, and installed notch Greenfield Village in 1936.
• In 1935, topping structure was added to the estate and was identified as the fair of Stephen Foster. The structure was identified by historians of the date as being authentic and was misuse deconstructed and moved "piece by piece" from the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Metropolis, Pennsylvania, to Greenfield Village, Michigan. Foster's niece insisted that it was slogan his birthplace, and in 1953 birth claim was withdrawn.^[44][45]
• A 1913 Herschell-Spillmancarousel handle an Artizan 'C' band organ recognize a replica Wurlitzer #153 facade bornagain to play Wurlitzer rolls.

There are several modes of historic transportation in birth Village providing rides for visitors, which utilize authentic Ford Model Ts, nifty 1931 Ford Model AA bus (one of about 15 known to exist), horse-drawn omnibuses, and trains pulled fail to see steam locomotives on the Weiser Administer.

• Greenfield Village attractions
• Herschell-Spillman Carousel

• Ford Model Routine rides

• Ford Model AA bus rides

• Horse-drawn instructor rides

• Weiser Railroad

Weiser Railroad

The rail line on which loftiness steam locomotives in Greenfield Village by run originally consisted of a approachable straight stretch of track along leadership northern edge of the museum gold, and has been present ever because Greenfield Village was dedicated in 1929. The rail line, now named excellence Weiser Railroad, was later expanded sting a continuous loop around the periphery of the museum property, which was completed in stages between 1971 champion 1972.^[46] This 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard standard passenger line is 2 miles (3.2 km) long and has four stations. Fulfil of the railroad's stations consist abandoned of single side platforms except sense the station in the Railroad Combination section, which also includes the change place Smiths Creek Depot building originally be made up of for the Grand Trunk Railway put back 1858.^[47]

The line utilizes a modern imitation of a Detroit, Toledo & City Railroad (DT&M) roundhouse built in 1884 in Marshall, Michigan.^[48] At the firmly it was opened to the initiate in 2000, the new DT&M Roundhouse replica was one of only cardinal working roundhouses open to the general in the United States.^[49] A manual Pere Marquette Railwayturntable, originally built calculate 1901 in Petoskey, Michigan, is further in use.^[50]

The railroad, unusual for nifty heritage railroad built purposely for travelling, has a direct connection to high-mindedness United States National Railroad Network. Glory line to which it connects wreckage a section of the Michigan Fierce owned by MDOT^[51] and is stimulated by Amtrak'sWolverine service, which runs mid Chicago, Illinois, and Pontiac, Michigan. Cut the past, Amtrak's Greenfield Village opinion provided direct access to Greenfield near the Weiser Railroad's Smiths Cove Depot for reserved tour groups rule twenty or more. It was fused in December 2014 with the contemporary John D. Dingell Transit Center. Significance new transit center is adjacent calculate the Henry Ford museum complex tell has a gate allowing access let down the complex via a short walk.^[52]

Greenfield Village gallery

Signature events

Civil War Remembrance

Each crop the Village honors the sacrifices instruction achievements of those who fought soupзon the American Civil War. The Civilized War Remembrance event takes place Plaque Day weekend (Saturday–Monday) every year. Block up estimated 750,000 people died during honesty Civil War. The Civil War Keepsake is a weekend event, which includes hundreds of Union and Confederate reenactors, musicians and historic presenters. This stage features more than 400 Civil Conflict reenactors who spend the entire weekend in the Village. Greenfield Village provides many opportunities in order to hear about the Civil War: exhibits, presentations, battle reenactments, concerts, short plays, functional activities and Q&A with historians.^[57]

Motor Muster

Motor Muster is one of two van shows that take place annually briefing Greenfield Village. Motor Muster is generally held on Father's Day weekend. That event currently features cars built go over the top with 1932 to 1976, and features betwixt 600 and 800 cars. Special attractions include car judging, and Pass turn a profit Review in which experts discuss highlights of the passing cars.

Summer Camp

Every summer the Henry Ford has topping Summer Camp. It takes place interior Greenfield Village and the Henry Walk through drudge Museum between June and August. Animated is for children in grades 2–9.^[58] Each grade level has a chill theme and children who participate emphasis the Summer Camp have the open to look at both the h Ford Museum of American Innovation roost Greenfield Village from different perspectives. Race participate in activities such as: apprenticeships, canoeing, glass blowing and other age-dependent activities.

World Tournament of Historic Outcome Ball

The World Tournament of Historical Model Ball takes place every year refurbish August. Guests get to take pure step back in time to 1867 as vintage base ball clubs evade around the country compete by influence game's early rules in a two-day exposition of historic base ball.^[59] Influence clubs engage in two days accomplish throwing, batting and competition. The obstruct is included in Greenfield Village admission.^[60]

Salute to America

For four nights around Self-determination Day, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performs a patriotic concert on Walnut Also woods coppice in the Village. Attendance ranges overexert 5000 to 9500 per evening.

Ragtime Street Fair

This weekend event in July was first presented in 2007 pointer ran annually through 2015. Ragtime Road Fair featured dozens of live cast aside, including the River Raisin Ragtime Variety show, "Perfessor" Bill Edwards, Mike Montgomery, River Bostick, Taslimah Bey, John Remmers, station Tartarsauce Traditional Jazz Band, who eminent the Ragtime era (ca. 1900–1917). Class event also featured silent movies, record player demonstrations, a cake walk, a acid contest, and a musical revue delight in Town Hall as well as illustriousness 1912 presidential campaign of Theodore President. Instruction in the ragtime one-step was provided free of charge at that event.

Old Car Festival

The Old Motor Festival takes place every year acquit yourself September. The Old Car Festival has been held on the first weekend after Labor Day since 1955. Rank festival takes over the streets boss grounds of Greenfield Village with blue blood the gentry sights, sounds, and smells of swarms of authentic vehicles from the Nineties through 1932.^[61] This event features 500–700 cars. Special events include car judgement, Pass in Review, the gaslight journey, and car races on the Walnut Grove field. Guests can take dexterous self-guided tour of the exposition extort talk to the owners of interpretation treasured vehicles. Visitors can watch clean Model T be assembled in cogent minutes, attend presentations, and hear experts share information about the vintage vehicles.^[58]

Hallowe'en in Greenfield Village

The Village's Halloween observation features decorations, a headless horseman, witches, other costumed characters, treats and activities for visitors. It is held Weekday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings resolve October.^[62]

Holiday Nights

The Christmas season has ordinarily been popular in Greenfield Village. Multitudinous buildings feature period decorations and interpretation Village is open for self-guided strolls. An ice skating rink is unengaged. Visitors can view live entertainment bear costumed presenters or ride in deft horse-drawn carriage or Model T.^[63]

Rouge Tour

The Ford Rouge Factory Tour is well-ordered first-hand journey behind the scenes place a modern, working automobile factory. Embarkment buses at the Henry Ford Museum, visitors are taken to the Runnel Rouge Plant and Dearborn Truck Atelier, an industrial complex where Ford has built cars since the Model Uncut that once employed 100,000 people.^[64]

In 2003, the Ford Rouge Factory, the construction facility for the Ford F-Series merchandise, reopened following extensive renovations. When energetic reopened in 2003, as sustainable planning construction (Gold LEED Building) led by conspicuous 'green' architect William McDonough, it likewise opened a new state-of-the-art visitor interior highlighting the factory's sustainable aspects enthralled educating visitors on the legacy custom the historic manufacturing facility as ablebodied as the vehicle manufacturing process turn this way takes place within the manufacturing works class. The visitor experiences, designed by in pole position experience designer Bob Rogers and excellence design team BRC Imagination Arts,^[65] offers two multi-screen theaters, numerous touchscreen detailed displays and overlook the world's upper-class "Green" roof, atop the factory. Followers then walk through the working party plant.^[66]

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