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Daily Activities
Visions of the Future
- Your Place in Time
- Daily
- 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
The 20th century saw amazing advances in technology and pop culture. What will the 21st century bring? Draw your ideas and submit them to be shown publicly in Your Place in Time.
Overland Touring Car
- Your Place in Time
- Daily
- 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sit in the driver's seat of a car that is over 100 years old. Open only when volunteers are available.
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About this Exhibit
Highlighting five generations that came of age in the 20th century, this exhibit presents each generation and the everyday technologies that shaped them. Immerse yourself in different eras and contemplate what it was like for each group as they came of age. Where is your place in America's past? What touching and once-familiar artifacts might you find here that stir memories of the social and cultural values that defined your own generation?
Highlights
Macintosh 512K Personal Computer, Model M0001W, 1985
In 1984, the Apple Macintosh became the first popular personal computer to feature the now-ubiquitous mouse and "graphical user interface" desktop. Despite the Mac's relatively high price, its user-friendly features helped it demystify computing for many people without a technical bent. This computer is a Macintosh 512k, released in 1985 with increased memory.
Lunchbox & Thermos, The Astronauts, 1969
The first pictorial lunchboxes, introduced in 1950, featured Hopalong Cassidy. Since then, generations of children have proudly sported pictorial images of their favorite interests on the sides of their school lunchboxes. The 1960s were an age of space exploration, beginning with the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 through the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon in 1969.
Your Place in Time
Check out some of the amazing — and curious — inventions and everyday technologies that shaped past generations. You'll see them first-hand when you journey through the Your Place in Time exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
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