INNOVATION In The Air
It’s a trip back in time that electrifies both young and old.
Step into Thomas Edison’s laboratory from Menlo Park, examine the John F. Kennedy presidential limousine, help build a Model-T, check out folk art from well-known painters such as Ammi Phillips and scan continental porcelain ceramics.
The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and its adjoining attractions – Greenfield Village and the Ford Rouge Factory Tour -- are phenomenal sights to see in Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit.
Telling history through artifacts is the main theme at The Henry Ford.
“The way I think about it is that we take a particular lens on that history of America where we really tell the history of the idea of America and then how that became expressed through inventions and innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Cynthia Jones, Henry Ford’s general manager of innovation experiences.
“So, kind of that idea of America piece, I really think about ‘Social Innovation’ and ‘With Liberty and Justice For All’ exhibitions. Whether that’s George Washington’s camp bed from the American Revolution or the Lincoln chair or all the
