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Ford Model T giving rides at
The Henry Ford.],
Michigan],
1981, (also known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute), in the [Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan,
Michigan, United States, is the nation's "largest indoor-outdoor history
museum" complex. America's Story, Explore the States: Michigan (2006). Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Library of Congress State of Michigan: MI Kids (2006). Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village More than a museum, it is a museum-entertainment complex where patrons can take a ride in a Model T, ride the train, visit an
IMAX Theater, or see a live show. Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist
Henry Ford and based on his desire to preserve items of history significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and
Americana. The collection contains many rare exhibits including
John F. Kennedy's limousine,
Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theater,
Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.
Henry Ford said of his museum:
"I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used.... When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition..."
History
The Edison Institute was dedicated by President of the United States
Herbert Hoover to Ford's longtime friend
Thomas Edison on October 21, 1929 – the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb. Of the 260 people in attendance, some of the more famous were
Maria Sklodowska-Curie,
George Eastman, John D. Rockefeller,
Will Rogers, and
Orville Wright. The dedication was carried on radio with listeners encouraged to turn off their electric lights until the switch was flipped at the Museum.
The Edison Institute was originally composed of the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, and the Greenfield Village Schools (an experimental learning facility). Initially, Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum were used as a laboratory for the school which included practical work in the machine shops. Admission to the Village was free to the public for the first few years. By 1937, the school had 300 students ranging from kindergarten to college age. The last original school on the grounds closed in 1969 although informal community education classes and school field trips continued. The Henry Ford Academy opened in 1997 and is now a 400-student secondary level
charter school with admission open to all county residents by lottery. Students have classes in a glass-walled section of the Museum, a converted carousel building and in
Pullman cars on a rail siding, feet away from the active Village railway.
Lovett Hall in the complex is a formal dance hall named for Henry Ford's dance master Benjamin Lovett. Ford was interested in preserving the dances of his youth in the age of jazz, and made
Contra dance required for his executives and for the Village school students. Local public school students were also taught with 22,000 participating at the program's peak. Contra dances occurred monthly at the hall until early 2005; at present there is no public contra dancing offered at the museum.
The Henry Ford is still closely tied to the Ford family which still provides museum board members and the Ford Motor Company which cooperates with the Henry Ford to provide the River Rouge Plant Factory Tour and is a sponsor of the school. The Henry Ford is sited between the Ford test track and several Ford engineering buildings with which it shares the same style gates and brick fences.
Museum
's prototype
Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford MuseumHenry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 m²) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery,
pop culture items,
automobiles,
locomotives,
aircraft, and other items:
Greenfield Village
is now housed at Greenfield Village.
Greenfield Village is considered the first and largest outdoor museum in America. Nearly one hundred historical buildings were moved to the property from their original locations and arranged in a "village" setting. The museum's intent is to show how United States lived and worked since the founding of the country. The Village includes buildings from the
17th century to the present, many of which are staffed by costumed interpreters who conduct period tasks like farming, sewing and cooking. A collection of
craft buildings such as a pottery, glass-blowing shop, tin shop provide demonstrations while producing materials used in the Village and for sale. Greenfield Village has 240 acres (970,000 m²) of land of which only 90 acres (360,000 m²) are used for the attraction, the rest being forest, river and extra pasture for the sheep and horses.
The transportation system provides rides by horse-drawn omnibus, steam locomotive, a 1931 Model AA bus (one of about 15 left known to exist), and authentic Ford Model Ts. Steam locomotives in operation include the Torch Lake, an 1873 0-6-4 Mason Bogie which is one of the oldest operating steam locomotives in the U.S., and the Edison, a
Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0.
Some of the most notable homes and buildings include:
Rouge Tour
The
Ford Rouge Factory Tour is a first-hand journey behind the scenes of a modern, working automobile factory. Boarding buses at the Henry Ford Museum, visitors are taken to the River Rouge Plant and
Dearborn Truck Plant – an industrial complex where Ford has built cars since the
Ford Model A and which once employed 100,000 people.
It should be noted that visitors only witness the 'final assembly' of vehicles. While this is interesting in and of itself to some visitors, there have been many complaints registered by disappointed guests.
Other
Behind the scenes, the
Benson Ford Research Center uses the resources of The Henry Ford, especially the photographic, manuscript and archival material which is rarely displayed, to allow visitors to gain a deeper understanding of American people, places, events, and things.
The museum also features an
IMAX, which shows scientific, natural, or historical documentaries; as well as major feature films.
Michigan native and former
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney formally announced
Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2008 for the
President of the United States at The Henry Ford on February 13,
2007.
See also
References
External links
{{Infobox_nrhp | name =Edison Institute| nrhp_type =nhl| image =Late model Ford Model T.jpg|| caption = A
Ford Model T giving rides at
The Henry Ford.],
Michigan],
1981, (also known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute), in the [Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan,
Michigan,
United States, is the nation's "largest indoor-outdoor history museum" complex. America's Story, Explore the States: Michigan (2006). Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Library of Congress State of Michigan: MI Kids (2006). Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village More than a museum, it is a museum-entertainment complex where patrons can take a ride in a Model T, ride the train, visit an
IMAX Theater, or see a live show. Named for its founder, the noted automobile
industrialist Henry Ford and based on his desire to preserve items of history significance and portray the
Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana. The collection contains many rare exhibits including
John F. Kennedy's limousine,
Abraham Lincoln's chair from
Ford's Theater, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, and the
Rosa Parks bus.
Henry Ford said of his museum:
"I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used.... When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition..."
History
The Edison Institute was dedicated by
President of the United States Herbert Hoover to Ford's longtime friend Thomas Edison on October 21,
1929 – the 50th anniversary of the invention of the
incandescent light bulb. Of the 260 people in attendance, some of the more famous were Maria Sklodowska-Curie,
George Eastman, John D. Rockefeller, Will Rogers, and
Orville Wright. The dedication was carried on radio with listeners encouraged to turn off their electric lights until the switch was flipped at the Museum.
The Edison Institute was originally composed of the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, and the Greenfield Village Schools (an experimental learning facility). Initially, Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum were used as a laboratory for the school which included practical work in the machine shops. Admission to the Village was free to the public for the first few years. By 1937, the school had 300 students ranging from kindergarten to college age. The last original school on the grounds closed in 1969 although informal community education classes and school field trips continued. The Henry Ford Academy opened in 1997 and is now a 400-student secondary level charter school with admission open to all county residents by lottery. Students have classes in a glass-walled section of the Museum, a converted
carousel building and in Pullman cars on a rail siding, feet away from the active Village railway.
Lovett Hall in the complex is a formal dance hall named for Henry Ford's dance master Benjamin Lovett. Ford was interested in preserving the dances of his youth in the age of
jazz, and made
Contra dance required for his executives and for the Village school students. Local public school students were also taught with 22,000 participating at the program's peak. Contra dances occurred monthly at the hall until early 2005; at present there is no public contra dancing offered at the museum.
The Henry Ford is still closely tied to the Ford family which still provides museum board members and the Ford Motor Company which cooperates with the Henry Ford to provide the
River Rouge Plant Factory Tour and is a sponsor of the school. The Henry Ford is sited between the Ford test track and several Ford engineering buildings with which it shares the same style gates and brick fences.
Museum
's prototype
Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford MuseumHenry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 m²) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items,
automobiles, locomotives,
aircraft, and other items:
- a nuclear-powered Ford Nucleon automobile.
- an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
- President of the United States John F. Kennedy Death Car, a 1961 Lincoln (automobile) Lincoln Continental.
- the rocking chair from Ford's Theater in which President of the United States Abraham Lincoln was shot.
- George Washington's camp bed.
- a ten-person safety bicycle made in 1896
- Thomas Edison's alleged last breath in a sealed tube.
- Buckminster Fuller's prototype Dymaxion house.
- The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks Bus FAQ.
- Igor Sikorsky's prototype helicopter.
- Fokker Trimotor airplane that flew the first flight over the North Pole.
- Bill Elliott's record-breaking race car clocking in at over 212 MPH at Talledega in 1987.
- The Newcomen steam engine from Cobb's Engine House in England.
Greenfield Village
is now housed at Greenfield Village.
Greenfield Village is considered the first and largest outdoor museum in America. Nearly one hundred historical buildings were moved to the property from their original locations and arranged in a "village" setting. The museum's intent is to show how United States lived and worked since the founding of the country. The Village includes buildings from the
17th century to the present, many of which are staffed by costumed interpreters who conduct period tasks like farming, sewing and cooking. A collection of
craft buildings such as a pottery, glass-blowing shop, tin shop provide demonstrations while producing materials used in the Village and for sale. Greenfield Village has 240 acres (970,000 m²) of land of which only 90 acres (360,000 m²) are used for the attraction, the rest being forest, river and extra pasture for the sheep and horses.
The transportation system provides rides by horse-drawn omnibus, steam locomotive, a 1931 Model AA bus (one of about 15 left known to exist), and authentic
Ford Model Ts.
Steam locomotives in operation include the Torch Lake, an 1873 0-6-4 Mason Bogie which is one of the oldest operating steam locomotives in the U.S., and the Edison, a
Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-4-0.
Some of the most notable homes and buildings include:
- Noah Webster's Connecticut home.
- the Wright brothers' bicycle shop and home from Dayton, Ohio.
- Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory from New Jersey.
- Henry Ford's birthplace
- Henry Ford's prototype garage where he built the quadricycle
- Harvey Firestone family farm
- William Holmes McGuffey's birthplace
- Luther Burbank's office
Rouge Tour
The
Ford Rouge Factory Tour is a first-hand journey behind the scenes of a modern, working automobile factory. Boarding buses at the Henry Ford Museum, visitors are taken to the
River Rouge Plant and Dearborn Truck Plant – an industrial complex where Ford has built cars since the Ford Model A and which once employed 100,000 people.
It should be noted that visitors only witness the 'final assembly' of vehicles. While this is interesting in and of itself to some visitors, there have been many complaints registered by disappointed guests.
Other
Behind the scenes, the
Benson Ford Research Center uses the resources of The Henry Ford, especially the photographic, manuscript and archival material which is rarely displayed, to allow visitors to gain a deeper understanding of American people, places, events, and things.
The museum also features an
IMAX, which shows scientific, natural, or historical documentaries; as well as major feature films.
Michigan native and former Massachusetts governor
Mitt Romney formally announced Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2008 for the
President of the United States at The Henry Ford on February 13,
2007.
See also
References
External links
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