Please note that tonight's Concert of Colors performances at the Detroit Historical Museum are moving indoors due to the wildfire smoke! Join us for: 🖼️ A Tribute to Ismael Ahmed | 5:30–9 p.m. Featuring: 🎧 DJ Head 🎺 Joan Belgrave & Bill Meyer Group 🎶 Next Generation Funk Brothers

Tomorrow afternoon at the Detroit Historical Museum! Join us for Memoirs of a Martyred Earth, a multidisciplinary performance experience bringing together Arabic musicians, women poets of the Arab diaspora, Belgian soundscape compositions, and immersive visual projections.

Detroit film festival joins forces with history museum for 2026 event

On July 15, 1779, U.S. Army General Anthony Wayne led a bayonet charge up a well-fortified, elevated stronghold, defended by two companies of British grenadiers, solidifying his reputation for heroics on the battlefield.

On July 14, 1944, this half-folded Sanders menu detailed efforts on the home front on its front and back covers, including paper conservation, blood donations, sending candy through the mail, and its commitment to maintain quality in the face of rationing.

The Rebellions that Changed U.S. History: Looking Back at the 1967 Newark & Detroit Uprisings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fwrEqvTR1s #BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #NewarkRebellion #CivilRightsHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #Newark1967 #BlackHistory #KnowYourHistory #TheEnglandManor

Today In 1934: New York #Yankees legend Babe Ruth hit career HR #700 in Detroit! After the game, he gave the fan who caught the ball $20 and a different signed ball in trade! #MLB #Baseball #History #RepBX

On July 10, 1910, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Grand Lodge Convention opened in Detroit after months of anticipation.

On July 9, 1951, a 50th birthday party for the Detroit Tigers, sponsored by the Detroit Times, was held at the Masonic Temple. Learn more about the team's long history: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

Save the date this month! Celebrate 75 years of the Detroit Historical Museum and 65 years of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum: 🎉 Anniversary Block Party | Detroit Historical Museum Fri, 7/24 | 10 am - 8 pm | Free! 🛟 Anniversary Dock Party | Dossin Great Lakes Museum Sat, 7/25 | 10 am - 5 pm | Free!

him: I'm coming home me: ok him: the original bow anchor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which she lost in the Detroit River in 1974, better not be there me:

Step into history with us this holiday weekend! The Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum will be OPEN today, 7/3 and Sunday, 7/5 with regular hours and CLOSED on Saturday, 7/4 🇺🇸 Plan your visit at: detroithistorical.org/visit

Ford Rotunda, Detroit July, 10 1956 … Canon IIS 50mm f/1.8 #filmphotography #streetphotography #Detroit

General Motors Motorama, Detroit April 28, 1956 Canon IIS 50mm f/1.8 Kodachrome #filmphotography #streetphotography #Detroit

On July 2, 1949, the Maritime Museum of Detroit opened on Belle Isle aboard the landed wood schooner J. T. Wing, the final commercial sailing ship on the Great Lakes.

This Canada Day, Lorene Brigden-Lennie of the Essex County Black Historical Research Society joins The Metro to discuss what Canada Day and Emancipation Day, observed on August 1, tell us about the country's past and present.

🎙️ In the final installment of our American Manufacturing 250 podcast series, AAM President Scott Paul visits the Detroit Historical Museum to explore how American manufacturing helped win WWII and what those lessons mean today. Listen now: www.americanmanufacturing.org/podcast/how-... #America250

Summer is heating up - maybe a little too much this week! 😅 Find out what's new and coming up at our museums from President & CEO Elana Rugh.

On June 30, 1940, this photograph was taken of a window display at Himelhoch's Department Store, featuring 4th of July women's attire. Signage in the front of the display reads, "WHITE FOR THE FOURTH, Dazzling white with gold -- with America's beloved red-white-and-blue accessories!"

How Detroit Built the Machine That Won WWII Detroit didn't just build cars. During World War II it built the machine that helped win the war. In the final installment of our three-part series on American manufacturing history — marking the 250th anniversary of the United States — AAM President Sc

Paperboy on the cover for the program to the 1949 UAW education conference, complete with the cutest edition of the union’s publication, Ammunition. Everyday surfaces new gems like these while processing the @uaw.org Education Department Records here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social!

This art got selected to be community painted in Paint-By-Number style in Belle Isle https://www.europesays.com/us/899840/ DETROIT – The Detroit Historical Society chose “Currents in Color” by Brontae Williamson to become a mural in…#us #news #usnews

🎨🌤🎉 Today is National Mural Day, and we're pleased to announce the artwork selected for our new paint-by-number style mural: "Currents in Color" by Brontae Williamson. Brontae is a multi-disciplinary designer with a product design degree from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

It's Members Appreciation Week! ✨ All week: visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum to be entered in raffles and enjoy a special 30% off museum store member discount (*regular priced merchandise, in-store only).

#OTD In 1963, my father led the Walk to Freedom in Detroit, where over 125,000 people marched, participating in the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history at the time. Two months later, the world heard his Dream at the March on Washington.

Congratulations to our 2026 Hustle honorees! 🎉🎉 These 35 change-making Detroit entrepreneurs of color were selected out of hundreds of outstanding nominations to be featured in exhibitions and programs throughout the next two years. See the full honoree list at detroithistorical.org/hustle

On June 20, 1966, Vernors ginger ale celebrated its 100th anniversary with a public event featuring tours, refreshments, and family entertainment at its Woodward Avenue factory. This ticket from our collection allowed admittance of an adult and guests.

On June 19, 1865, some 2,000 Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay, TX and announced that the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued two years earlier, decreed that 250,000+ enslaved Black people in the state were free. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...

🌤️📲 Holiday hours! Please note a few upcoming museum closures this summer, including this Friday, 6/19 and Saturday, July 4. The Dossin Great Lakes Museum will be OPEN on Labor Day, Monday, 9/ 7, but the Detroit Historical Museum will be CLOSED.

On June 18, 1898, Bob-lo Island Amusement Park opened for the first time on Bois Blanc Island, Ontario, Canada. It would be a favorite summer destination for Detroiters for the next century. 🎢 Revisit some classic Bob-Lo rides on our blog: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

The historic Selma, Alabama, home where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped shape the 1965 Voting Rights Act is now open to the public. STORY: https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/wayne-county/historic-jackson-home-opens-at-greenfield-village-bringing-civil-rights-history-to-metro-detroit 

k & j dairy, 11600 livernois, detroit, michigan, 1986

On June 17, 1895, the first marine post office in the nation was chartered in Detroit. In 1948, postal operations were wholly assumed by the J.W. Westcott Co. and the J.W. Westcott became an official U.S. Postal Service mail boat.

The clubhouse for the Detroit Association of Women's Clubs, established in 1921 as a defiance of racist exclusion, was recently included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Detroit Historical Museum Streets of Old Detroit

Saturday, 6/13! Join us for an evening opening reception for The Amplification Project: Women Artists of the Arab Diaspora (Detroit), the newest exhibition in the Robert and Ann Bury Community Gallery at the Detroit Historical Museum.

📜 On This Day In 1805, today: A massive fire swept through the Michigan Territory, consuming large portions of Detroit. #OnThisDay #WorldHistory

Opening on Saturday 6/13!

Tomorrow night at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum! Join us for “The Archive” - the official launch event for Detroit 313 – our newest affinity group for emerging professionals who love Detroit history.

Mid-Century Detroit Photos by Norman Zadoorian on Display at Detroit Historical Museum www.hourdetroit.com/art-topics/n...

📣 Starting this weekend! We're offering drop-in tour opportunities at the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for an additional $5 starting at 11 am & 1 pm most Saturdays, continuing through the end of September! Visit detroithistorical.org/events for details.

Just visited the @detroithistorical.bsky.social on my lunch break, and am beyond pumped after seeing their Red Wings’ centennial exhibit, especially anything related to the back to back Stanley Cups in the 90s. I must have listened to my I Want Stanley CD a millions times back then.

On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford test drove the Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, on the streets of Detroit. It's pictured along with Henry Ford's first workshop, a portrait of Ford and an aerial view of the Ford River Rouge Complex on this 1930s-era postcard.

Automakers once fueled Highland Park, but eventually left the city running on financial fumes. Quinn Klinefelter explores the auto industry's rise and fall in Highland park with automotive historian Robert Tate as part of WDET's series Crossing the Lines.

Looking back on Erma Henderson and her historic 1972 election win, when she became the first Black woman elected to the Detroit Common Council https://www.hourdetroit.com/from-the-magazine/erma-henderson-the-way-it-was-1972/

Detroit, McNamara Terminal (opened 2002), by SmithGroup. 📷 Architectural Record, Aug. 2003. #airportarchitecture byerussell.substack.com/p/how-to-des...

🕰️ Tonight - we're OPEN LATE! Have you ever wondered what Detroit was like in the Revolutionary War era? As Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin worked to draft the Declaration of Independence, Detroit was already a well-established and influential settlement with deep colonial roots.

On May 28, 1860, David Mackenzie was born in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit. He was an educator, principal of Detroit's Central High School, and founder of the College of the City of Detroit, which would become Wayne State University. Learn more: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

Michigan Advance Trivia: What renowned Detroit institution originally began on November 19, 1928, in a one-room suite on the 23rd floor of what is now the Cadillac Tower? Check back later for the answer.

Views of the Detroit skyline and waterfront on the covers of @uaw.org special convention proceedings books. 1958 and 1961. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.