Welcome to the legendary Detroit, Michigan's largest industrial and cultural center. The most famous American city-car industry, located in the north of the US, on the border with Canada, was founded in 1701 by the French governor and aristocrat with the speaking name Antoine de la Motte Cadillac. However, Detroit received Motown's fame thanks to Henry Ford, who founded the Ford Motor Company, a world-famous automotive concern, at the end of the 19th century.

Shipbuilding, engineering, chemical and metallurgical industry, favorable location of transport hubs, water and railways, here The main whales of the economic well-being of Detroit during the First and Second World Wars. It only remains to add a couple of names such as Dodge, Packard, Durand and Chrysler to fully imagine the extent of the grandeur and status of this "golden city" of North America.

In addition to the preserved architectural monuments of the early 20th century in Detroit, the ancient buildings of the University of Wain, 1868, the University of Mercy, 1877, the Kranbrook Art Academy, the cultural center of Detroit with a scientific center, a library and various expositions, as well as numerous museums.

Art Institute

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Paradoxically, the facts speak for themselves, in Detroit presented a huge number of galleries, exhibitions, collections of modern and authentic art. Judge for yourself:

Art Institute

The Institute of Arts (Detroit Institute of Arts) has been functioning since 1985. The Mega Museum consists of more than one hundred galleries and includes the richest collection of objects of culture and life of the peoples of America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Aboriginal Oceania and other ancient civilizations. The truly golden fund of the US cultural heritage consists of more than 65 thousand exhibits

America is represented here by artists Bingham, Edwin Church, Whitler, Singleton, Copley, Singer, Sargent and Sloan, as well as a large collection of furniture, silverware, ceramics, glass and wood of different epochs and craftsmen

The European collection will delight the exquisite connoisseurs of the classics with the works of Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Giovanni Bellini, Peter Brueghel the Elder, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Georges Sera, Nicolas Poussin and Michelangelo da Carava жо . You will see Van Gogh's paintings "Self-portrait", Fusli "Nightmare", Van Eyck "Saint Jerome", Brueghel the Elder "Peasant dance", Caravaggio, "Marfa and Mary Magdalene" . In addition to painting in the gallery are presented sculptures by Donatello, Lorenzo Bernini, Auguste Rodin, Luca de la Robbia and Niccolo Pisano, as well as fine examples of Sevres porcelain, epochal tapestries, furniture and various everyday objects .

The main museum of Detroit unites most of the thematic galleries interesting for tourists, ib o has the art samples of most famous authors of the world and eras. Here you will find the art of ancient Egypt, and ultramodern masterpieces. This is a unique chance to see the original creations of Henri Matisse, the painting of Claude Monet, the canvases of Kandinsky, the collection of frescoes by the Mexican Diego Rivera in one place.

There is a cafe in the museum, non-working days are Monday and Tuesday. Admission price for an adult $ 8.
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Men's Museums

Perhaps, for men, Detroit, this is a priori one of the most interesting tourist cities in the world. After all, going through half the world, that would be dragged along art galleries, this is a very weak motivation. But to go for car shows, visit the headquarters of Ford or Chrysler, the place where the history of the American automobile industry was written, for this, perhaps it's worth spending half the day in the sky.

Henry Ford Museum

The Henry Ford Museum , dedicated to the most legendary person in Detroit, rather resembles a small city with its own railway, the workshop of the Wright brothers, the house of Ford himself, the factory, slave huts, as well as houses from different eras . In fact, a huge exposition is devoted to the technical progress of the United States as a whole . Start This exhibition of achievements was put by Henry Ford himself, selecting for himself the exhibits . Here there are bicycles and locomotives, the first lighting devices and water pumps, the workshops of inventors and the cars themselves in the Automobile Hall of Glory .

Opening Hours: 9:30 - 17:00. Entrance $ 17, children 5-12 years old $ 12.50, children under 5 years - free of charge

Walter Chrysler Museum

The Walter Chrysler Museum, opened in 1999, is located next to the Chrysler headquarters in the town of Auburn Hills. Here you can see such rare historical examples as Nash, Rambler, DeSoto, Hudson and Willys-Overland, which, if they are anywhere else outside the museum, then for sure, in some rare private collection. And, of course, there are modern models of Chrysler and Jeep here.

Working hours: Tues-Sat 10: 00-17: 00, Sun 12: 00-17: 00, Mon - day off. Entrance $ 8, children $ 4, up to 5 years - free of charge

Other museums

The central points of tourist attention include the Military Museum Historic Fort Wayne, a branch of the historical museum with marine themes The Museum of Great Lakes Dossin, directly the Detroit Historical Museum, Museum of Aviation The National Museum "Pilots from Tuskegee", the Museum of Ceramics with the studio of ceramics Pewabic and its own school and many other places of interest.

Henry Ford Museum

The Museum of African History. Charles Wright (IAM)

Perhaps you already have a certain sense of gigantomania. The museum of Charles Wright will strengthen this impression even more. After all, this is the largest museum of African culture in the world, with the most rich historical and cultural heritage. Gradually you start to get used to this "mega" prefix, to everything that is in Detroit. So the African Museum is a huge complex with a territory of 120 thousand feet, containing galleries, a library, lecture rooms and a souvenir shop. The museum has been functioning since 1997.

Museum of African beads

It can be said that this museum is a thematic branch of the previous institution, which, of course, will interest not only the "Afrikoved", but will magnetize the attention of all women, without exception. Yes Yes! A huge number of colorful, bright African jewelry made of gold, silver, ivory and wood. Products will not only be admired, but also some reproductions will be purchased

International Musical Museum Gospel

Detroit is home to not only the popular musical trend of techno, but also the less known and more conceptual style of gospel, church chant. It is known that most pop idols developed their vocals precisely because of performances in church choirs. Many of them were hot fans of gospel direction all their life, among them the legendary Elvis Presley. The source of the gospel birth is in the north-west of Detroit, today in the personification of the whole museum and its own Hall of Fame.