Some neighborhoods have a museum. Midtown Detroit has a constellation. Within a few leafy blocks around Woodward and Warren avenues — the historic Cultural Center — you’ll find the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center and the main branch of the Detroit Public Library, a 1921 Cass Gilbert masterpiece in white marble.
The Wright Museum, one of the largest museums of African American history in the world, anchors the district alongside the DIA. Between them sit Wayne State University’s campus, the Detroit Film Theatre, bookstores, cafes and the gleaming new developments that have made Midtown Detroit’s most walkable arts district.
Park once and wander: many visitors pair a morning at the DIA with an afternoon at the Wright, stopping at the library’s grand staircase in between. It is, quite simply, one of the finest museum neighborhoods in America.
