Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
One of America’s most important museums of technology and industrial history. It holds the car JFK was riding in when he was assassinated and Rosa Parks’ bus.
The Henry Ford museum is in Dearborn. Henry Ford founded it in 1929, and its galleries cover about 40,000 square meters. Its key holdings include the Lincoln convertible in which President Kennedy was riding when he was assassinated, the bus that became a symbol of the civil rights movement when Rosa Parks sat in it, and the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated. The museum also has a display of the Ford Model T assembly line, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House, and many steam locomotives and aircraft. Allow at least half a day. A combined ticket is available with Greenfield Village and the Rouge Factory Tour. The museum is about 20 km from downtown Detroit and requires a car or taxi to reach.
Opening hours
09:30–17:00
Nearby sights
- Greenfield Village
- Ford Rouge Factory Tour
- Motown Museum (Hitsville U.S.A.)
- Michigan Central Station
- Ambassador Bridge
- Fisher Building
- Corktown
- Detroit Historical Museum