DiscoverHenry Ford Museum of American Innovation

Overview

Because there's still history to be made.

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Discover the bold ideas and brilliant minds that shaped America's past and inspire its future.
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Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

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About the Museum

Find your breakthrough moment

Visit Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, where the stories of America’s greatest minds come to life. Sit where Rosa Parks made history, discover the drive behind American automotive innovations and make yourself at home inside Buckminster Fuller’s circular Dymaxion House. Be inspired by the past — and imagine your own place in the future.

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Exhibits

Explore real artifacts and powerful stories that spark curiosity, fuel imagination and leave you inspired.

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While You're Here

Dining

Enjoy unforgettable food experiences here, from quick bites to full-course culinary feasts.
  • Plum Market Kitchen
    Restaurant

    Plum Market Kitchen

    • Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
    • Open Daily
    • Lunch is served 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

    Nourish your next big idea featuring chef-curated cuisine and Zingerman's coffee and baked goods. Lunch is served 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

  • Family eating lunch in Lamy's diner in the Museum
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    Lamy's Diner

    • Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
    • Open Daily
    • Lunch is served 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

    From paper straws in your frappe to traditional diner entrees, Lamy's dishes up authenticity in a late 1940s Massachusetts diner.

Shopping

Our carefully curated stores at The Henry Ford will spark your passion for history, inspire your next great idea, and bring living traditions into your life and home.
  • Museum Store
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    Henry Ford Museum Store

    • Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
    • Open Daily
    • 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

    From cars to books and from recycled to reimagined, find gifts that have been carefully curated to share the stories of innovation.

  • Genius at Play Store
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    Genius at Play™

    • Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
    • Open Daily
    • 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

    Let your creative side run wild with merchandise that is ingenious, fun-loving and seriously inspiring.

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  • Kids sitting on the Rosa Parks Bus speaking to one another through the windows.

    Admission Tickets

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  • Couple standing and talking in front of the Mark IV in Driven to Win.

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  • DC 3 in the Intersection of Innovation in the Museum

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Did You Know?

Leonardo da Vinci wrote from right to left in "mirrored writing," so his work was legible only when held up to a mirror!

Find out more about him at our current special exhibit DaVinci The Exhibition in The Gallery by General Motors.

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From Our Visitors

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Family (Father and two young sons) in the Texaco Station interactive in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

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DC 3 plane in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

Questions?

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