Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail
Detroit Historical Museum, MI

The Detroit Historical Museum presents exhibits and programs tracing 300 years of Detroit and southeastern Michigan history. Services include guided tours, community programs, curriculum resources, and workshops for teachers.

The Detroit Historical Museum offers a wide range of exhibits and educational programs. At the Museum, visitors walk through time in The Streets of Old Detroit with shops from the 1840s, 1870s and 1900s. They can glimpse the city's role in the Underground Railroad in the Doorway to Freedom exhibit. Children and adults alike delight in The Glancy Trains toy train exhibit, where they can blow whistles, lower crossing gates, and get an engineer's eye view from a TV camera mounted in one of the engines. At the Motor City exhibit, visitors experience Woodward Ave’s automotive heritage with a replica of the first car driven on the streets of Detroit, a listing of all 100 plus car manufactures, which were originally along the byway, and a part of the assembly line - the body drop - from the former Cadillac Clark Plant. The Museum also hosts a number of traveling and temporary exhibits.

The Museum's educational programs reach thousands of school children annually. One of the most creative programs is Detroit Storyliving, serving more than 15,000 students each year with an interactive educational experience, using role playing, music, and team-based activities to explore local history.