Changing Exhibitions
1984 World Series Street Portraits: Photography by Carlos Diaz
March 23, 2024–January 6, 2025 NOW OPEN in the Detroit Artists Showcase During the summer of 1984, Detroit was buzzing with excitement and anticipation, as the Detroit Tigers got closer to winning the World Series. Carlos Diaz had just moved into...
Automotive Showplace
The Automotive Showplace is a changing exhibit space at the Detroit Historical Museum that features rare and unique vehicles from the Detroit Historical Society’s collection, presented by Warner Norcross + Judd. NOW OPEN in the Automotive...
Detroit Diesel Power
April 27, 2024–April 27, 2025 NOW OPEN in America's Motor City Showcase Detroit brand diesel engines have powered everything from 18-wheelers to presidential yachts since their founding in 1938. A local institution, it has employed generations of...
Detroit Lions: Gridiron Heroes
August 24, 2024–August 24, 2025 NOW OPEN on the second level in the City of Champions Gallery Before 1934, several professional football teams had tried and failed to gain a foothold in the city of Detroit. But the Lions endeared themselves to...
Detroit’s Brewing Heritage
NOW OPEN on the Lower Level Joseph Parent, Detroit’s first recognized brewer, arrived in 1706, just five years after the new French trading post was established. Generations of English, Irish, Belgian, Polish, German and Detroit-born brewers...
Grand River WorkPlace: A Decade of Community and Coworking
October 4, 2024 - January 26, 2025 NOW OPEN in the Auditorium Showcase In 2014, the Grandmont-Rosedale Development Corporation opened the Grand River WorkPlace to attract and foster a new generation of entrepreneurs and businesses to the community....
Kresge at 100: A Century of Impact, A Future of Opportunity
May 5, 2024–February 2, 2025 NOW OPEN in Wrigley Hall The Kresge Foundation was established in Detroit in 1924 by Sebastian Spering Kresge, whose retail empire, the S.S. Kresge Co., brought low-priced goods to the nation through five and dime...
Toy Town
The Robert and Mary Ann Bury Community Gallery is a changing exhibition space made available to local historical societies, museums, non-profit organizations and educational institutions, selected for their contributions to the metro Detroit...
Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger
March 14, 2024–January 6, 2025 NOW OPEN in the Motor City Music exhibition Photographer Tom Weschler served as Bob Seger’s road manager in the late 1960s and early 1970s, traveling throughout Michigan and the Midwest prior to Seger’s string of gold...
