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Detroit Historical Museum
5401 Woodward Ave.
(313) 833-1805
This museum showcases the history of Detroit and southeastern Michigan, including exhibits that recreate the streets of Old Detroit and 19th Century stores, celebrate automotive history and reveal a pilot house from a Great Lakes freighter.

Detroit Institute of the Arts
5200 Woodward Ave.
(313) 833-7900
The Detroit Institute of the Arts offers more than 100 galleries with art from ancient to modern times.

Detroit Science Center
5020 John R. Street
(313) 577-8400
Now called The New Detroit Science Center, this hands-on center includes traveling exhibits, five hands-on exhibit laboratories, two demonstration stages, an IMAX theater and a digital dome planetarium.

Eastern Market - Detroit
Russell Street
(586) 393-8800
This indoor-outdoor marketplace is more than a century old and remains one of the city's major attractions. Spread over a 43-acre area, the market draws 45,000 people on a given Saturday.

Motown Historical Museum -- Detroit
2648 W. Grand Blvd.
(313) 875-2264
When you visit this museum, which is located in an old brick house, you will be standing on the site where the Motown sound of the 1960s began. The exhibits include musical instruments, photographs, and the original world-famous Studio A and control room, where Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, the Temptations, the Supremes and many others got their start in the music business under the direction of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.

Automotive Hall of Fame -- Dearborn
21400 Oakwood Blvd. adjacent to the Henry Ford Museum
(313) 240-4000
This attraction recognizes the achievement of men and women in the automotive and related industries. More than 200 individuals have been inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.

Detroit Zoological Park -- Royal Oak
8450 W. Ten Mile Road
(248) 398-0900
This zoo features open, exhibits that are designed to simulate natural environments. The zoo covers 125 acres and includes a great ape complex, a snow monkey area with hot spring, a reptile house, a free-flight aviary, and penguin and polar bear exhibits. A miniature railroad carries visitors around the grounds of the zoo.

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village -- Dearborn
20900 Oakwood Blvd.
(313) 982-6001
The museum and village cover 93 acres and highlight not only the life and contribution of Henry Ford, but also American innovation and enterprise. The museum's collections include communications, transportation, industry, agriculture and domestic life. Its exhibits feature the Rosa Parks bus, the chair that Abraham Lincoln sat in when he was assassinated, the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Edgar Allan Poe's writing desk.

Greenfield Village's 81 acres cover more than 300 years in exhibits, including steam locomotives, a steamboat, and a Model T. There is an IMAX theater in the vistors' center.

Henry Ford Estate - Fair Lane -- Dearborn
University of Michigan - Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen St.
(313) 593-5590
Tours are available of this estate, which sits on a 1,300-acre site. The 56-room estate was built in 1914 as Clara and Henry Ford's final home. Visitors are invited to explore the home, as well as the six-level Powerhouse, including Ford's personal garage and cars. This Powerhouse, created by Ford and Thomas Edison, gave the estate the independence to produce its own power, heat and light - and in fact, still produces electricity today.

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