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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 Henry Ford II World Center, also commonly known as the Ford World Headquarters and popularly known as the Glass House, [1] [2] is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building [3] designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000.
In 1963, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the birth of Henry Ford, the Ford Foundation donated three million dollars to the City of Dearborn to construct a memorial library. On July 30, 1963, Ford's hundredth birthday, the Ford Motor Company deeded 15.3 acres (6.2 ha) of land to the City of Dearborn for the building. The library was ...
Red Wings fans may want to take a detour to Dearborn. The Henry Ford is featuring the traveling exhibit "Hockey: Faster Than Ever," which explores the history, culture and how science and math ...
Dinosaurs in Motion, a summer exhibit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, offers visitors the chance to interact with kinetic dinosaur sculptures. ... Allison O'Connor of Huntington Woods is a museum ...
A year later, in December 1963, these archives were donated to the Edison Institute [10] (known today as the Henry Ford Museum). The site of the Ford Rotunda was left empty until the Michigan Technical Education Center (M-TEC) opened on the site in 2000. [11] The road in front of the Rotunda's former location retains its name, Rotunda Drive.
The private rail car of Henry and Clara Ford, named "Fair Lane", was kept on standby at the Ford siding of the Michigan Central Railroad in Dearborn. The Ford Fairlane automobile model, sold between 1955 and 1970 in America , and between 1959 and 2007 in Australia , was named after the Fair Lane estate.
Besides its casino resort hotels, the region's leading attraction is The Henry Ford, America's largest indoor-outdoor museum complex, [21] [22] a National Historic Landmark museum entertainment complex with an IMAX theater next to the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn.