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The Michigan Relics (also known as the Scotford Frauds or Soper Frauds) are a series of alleged ancient artifacts that were "discovered" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. They were presented by some to be evidence that people of an ancient Near Eastern culture had lived in North America and the U.S. state of Michigan ...
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers 658,000 square feet (61,100 m 2 ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2007 that added 58,000 ...
Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina [106] Denver Museum of Nature and Science [107] Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan [108] Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures [109] Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois [110] Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center-Shepen-Min [111] Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas [112]
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts [9] Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts [10] University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts [11] Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 ...
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [1]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
The history of the museum begins before the museum was established. The founder of the university's collection of artifacts was Francis Kelsey, a professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1889 until his death in 1927. [3] [4] Kelsey began acquiring artifacts in 1893 in order to help his students understand the ancient world. [5]
The Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city's Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century, and much more.
The Arab American National Museum (AANM, Arabic: المتحف الوطني العربي الأمريكي) is a museum in Dearborn, Michigan, highlighting the history, experiences, and contributions of Arab Americans. [1] Established in 2005, it is the first, and largest, museum in the world devoted to Arab American history and culture. [2]