The Henry Ford
About The Henry Ford
The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, the Rosa Parks bus, and many other historical exhibits.
It is the largest indoor–outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1981 as "Edison Institute".
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- Founded
- 1929
- Annual visitors
- 1.8M
- in 2016
Photos of The Henry Ford
01DearbornAlvintrusty · CC BY-SA 3.0
02Henry Ford Academy DearbornDwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0
03Greenfield Village from John D. Dingell Transit CenterRmhermen · CC BY-SA 4.0
04Narrow gauge locomotive, John D. Dingell Transit CenterRmhermen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.3 miles of The Henry Ford; the closest, Automotive Hall of Fame, is about a mile away.
