Wednesday, July 19, 2017

the Henry Ford?

We stopped in Ann Arbor to visit some friends and used the opportunity to go the museum in nearby Dearborn which i thought was called "The Henry Ford Museum".  But when approaching the area the signs called it Henry Ford, or if a definite article was used it was lower case so that it was "the Henry Ford", and "museum" was not included in the title.  I should have asked a museum staffer about the naming/branding.

Unlike the Mercedes Benz museum, this is museum is more than cars.  There was a lot of American history on display with sections on manufacturing, vintage furniture including the chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot, racial history with the restored bus ridden by Rosa Parks on display, aviation, and of course cars.  If we were there midweek or Saturday we could have paid extra and had a Ford factory tour as well.  Its not a cheap museum at $21/each and another $27 if you want to visit Greenfield village (a made up town next to the museum with historical buildings), but it was worth the stop.


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