Step off Woodward Avenue and into 1840. The Detroit Historical Museum’s beloved Streets of Old Detroit recreate three eras of city streets in the museum’s lower level — cobblestones and gas lamps, a fur trader’s cabin, a 19th-century storefront row and an early auto-era street — all indoors, all walkable, all year.
Upstairs, galleries trace the city’s journey from French trading post to Arsenal of Democracy to Motor City, with exhibits on the auto industry, the Underground Railroad (Detroit was a final stop before Canada) and the music that made the city famous. The museum, operated by the Detroit Historical Society since 1928, sits directly across from the Detroit Public Library in the Cultural Center.
Find it at 5401 Woodward Avenue. Admission details and exhibition news are at detroithistorical.org — and the Streets make a perfect rainy-day adventure for first-time visitors and nostalgic locals alike.
