AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the Detroit Historical Museum. The America’s Motor City exhibition tells the fascinating stories of both how cars built metro Detroit and how metro Detroit built cars, as well as why Detroit became the Motor City. The popular Cadillac “body drop,” taken from the Clark Street assembly plant when it closed in 1987, is the showpiece in this section of the exhibition. Visitors can watch it lower a Cadillac body on to its frame every twelve minutes. A crowd favorite for years, The Glancy Trains are from the collection of Alfred R. Glancy Jr. (1908–1973), real estate financier and former-owner of the Empire State Building in New York City. The Gallery of Innovation explores Detroit-area innovators and innovations, emphasizing how Detroit has historically been — and will continue to be — a hub for innovation.
The Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202. Admission is free and parking is $7 in the adjacent Museum lot on Kirby St. For more information, call 313.833.1805 or visit http://detroithistorical.org/detroit-historical-museum