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Photo 1: Robert Bury, Executive Director & CEO of the Detroit Historical Society (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society)








Photo 2: Michelle Wooddell, Chief Operating Officer (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society)








Photo 3: The Detroit Historical Museum, located in the Midtown Cultural Center, opened at this location on July 24, 1951 – the City’s 250th Birthday.






Photo 4: The Detroit Historical Museum’s Kirby Street public entrance








Photo 5: The Kresge Store, part of the 1900s section of the Detroit Historical Museum’s signature exhibit, The Streets of Old Detroit.







Photo 6: The dental office of Dr. Sylvester Smith, the city of Detroit’s first African American dentist, in the 1900s section of the Detroit Historical Museum’s signature exhibit, The Streets of Old Detroit.





Photo 7: The 1870s section of the Detroit Historical Museum’s signature exhibit, The Streets of Old Detroit, which gives visitors the opportunity to literally walk through time.





Photo 8: Some children enjoy the 1900s section of the Detroit Historical Museum’s signature exhibit, The Streets of Old Detroit.






Photo 9: A shoe store is just one of the curiosities found in the 1870s section of the Detroit Historical Museum’s signature exhibit, The Streets of Old Detroit.






Photo 10: A portion of the moving assembly line from the Cadillac Clark Avenue plant, which ran through the mid-1980s, is the focal attraction in the Detroit Historical Museum’s Motor City exhibit.







Photo 11: A new interactive section on automotive design was added to the Detroit Historical Museum’s Motor City exhibit in 2006. (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society)






Photo 12: A bust of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French founder of Detroit, is found in the Detroit Historical Museum’s Frontiers to Factories exhibit.








Photo 13: The Glancy Trains interactive model train layout is a favorite of all ages at the Detroit Historical Museum (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society).





Photo 14: The Dossin Great Lakes Museum, located on Belle Isle, is open to the public on weekends. (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society)





Photo 15: The Miss Pepsi championship hydroplane of the 1940s and 50s is on display at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society).





Photo 16: The Dossin Great Lakes Museum features one of the largest collections of ship models in the world. This is a model of the Ste. Claire, one of the famous Bob-Lo boats that shuttled visitors to the Bob-Lo Island amusement park (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society).



Photo 17: A bow anchor from the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald that was lost in the Detroit River in 1974, about a year before the ship sank in Lake Superior, sits as a permanent memorial in the yard outside the Dossin Great Lakes Museum (photo by Elayne Gross, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society).






Photo 18: The pilot house from the S.S. William Clay Ford gives visitors the chance to “captain” a Great Lakes freighter during their visit to the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.