Note: Please see
my review for Greenfield Village titled “Step Back in Time” for more
information that pertains to both the Village and the Museum. (This website
doesn’t allow me to duplicate the information.)
My
spouse and I visited both The Henry Ford Museum of Innovation on a Monday in
early July 2017. The Museum is open daily except for Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
For
us, highlights of the completely indoor Henry Ford Museum of Innovation include
the Oscar Meyer WeinerMobile, Lincoln’s chair from Ford Theatre, JFK
presidential limo, Rosa Parks bus, Lamy’s diner, the old business
signs/displays (including the Texaco garage, McDonald’s, Howard Johnson’s,
Holiday Inn room), drive-in movie screen/car, farm equipment, automobile and
airplane collections, dollhouses, tiny model trains and hulking real trains,
and the Buckminster Fuller's futuristic Dymaxion House. The indoor museum contains
over 26 million artifacts!
The
Museum offers dining options such as the American Dog House (hot dogs),
Concession Stand, Lamy’s (a full-service retro diner with seats inside and “outside”
on a raised platform). Since we could not find a table at Lamy’s, we visited
the Michigan Café instead, where we took a longer-than-anticipated afternoon
break. At the Café, after you place your order and pay, you are given a beeper
to place on your table. When your order is ready, staff walk amongst the tables
searching for the vibrating beeper, which requires a sort of treasure hunt as
they carry a tray and stop at one table then another and another until they
find the correct table in the large room; small numbered signs on tall holders
would work more efficiently.)
We
enjoyed our day at Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum; both parts
were unique and interesting, and it is difficult to say which we liked better. What
an enjoyable day!
