Detroit: Henry Ford Museum of Innovation (July 2017)


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!





















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