Cranbrook Educational Community
Cranbrook
A Saarinen-designed art academy campus, often called one of America’s most beautiful, with an art museum, science museum, and gardens.
Cranbrook is located in Bloomfield Hills in the northern suburbs. Built by newspaper tycoon George Booth and architect Eliel Saarinen between the 1920s and 1940s, it blends Arts and Crafts and Art Deco styles and is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Visitors can see the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Cranbrook Institute of Science (with dinosaur displays and a planetarium), the Saarinen House, and the Booth family mansion and gardens. Design masters such as Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen studied and taught here. It is about 35 km from downtown and requires a car to reach.
Opening hours
Gallery Thu–Sun 11:00–17:00; house and garden tours per official website
Nearby sights
- Detroit Zoo
- Motown Museum (Hitsville U.S.A.)
- Fisher Building
- Greenfield Village
- Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
- Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
- Detroit Historical Museum
- Ford Rouge Factory Tour