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Museum of Fine Arts Boston, musical instruments collection – Boston [155] Michigan Motown Museum. Music House Museum – Acme; Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments – Ann Arbor; Motown Museum – Detroit; International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Detroit [156] Carnegie Center, Port Huron Museum, musical collection – Port ...
The Wright–Kay Building, originally known as the Schwankovsky Temple of Music, is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Detroit, Michigan.It is located at 1500 Woodward Avenue, at the corner of Woodward and John R. Street, in proximity to the Lower Woodward Avenue Historic District.
Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Hitsville U.S.A. Motown building, at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Motown's headquarters from 1959 to 1968, which became the Motown Historical Museum in 1985 [13] In 1957, Gordy met Smokey Robinson, a local seventeen-year-old singer fronting a vocal harmony group called the Matadors.
House Bill 4177, introduced by state Rep. Tyrone Carter, D-Detroit, would allow counties to establish historical museum authorities — and the bill is written to allow the Wright and the Detroit ...
The old Detroit Museum of Art stood at 704 E. Jefferson Ave. The building opened in 1888. Support for the museum came from Detroit philanthropists such as Charles Lang Freer, and the auto barons: art and funds were donated by the Dodges, the Firestones and the Fords, especially Edsel Ford and his wife Eleanor, and subsequently their children.
The Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is a 1,731-seat theatre located in the city's theatre district at 350 Madison Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.It was built in 1928 as the Wilson Theatre, designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976, [2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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