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Located on The Strand on Belle Isle Park along the Detroit River, this museum places special interest on Detroit's role on national and regional maritime history. The 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2 ) museum features exhibits such as one of the largest collections of model ships in the world, and the bow anchor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald , which ...
Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
There was a small fee to cross the bridge to get inside. Once inside it was a jungle paradise with wooden animals, live ducks and birds roaming free, many trees and trails for kids to run around and play. Jungle Island lagoon still exists today but the playground island has been replaced with buildings. Knott's Bear-y Tales/Kingdom of the Dinosaurs
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) takes a bold new step with a special exhibition by native Detroiter Tiff Massey. The spectacular “Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois,” opening Sunday, is the ...
The Supremes, Nicki Minaj, the Jackson 5, Lady Gaga and more are part of the Motown Museum's new interactive exhibit along the Detroit ... “Motown continues to live in the music we listen to ...
Penguinariums date back at least to 1968, when the Detroit Zoo opened the first in North America and possibly the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Detroit penguinarium was expanded in 2015 with a US$21 million overhaul funded in part by a US$10 million donation, the largest in the zoo's history, from a single donor. [ 3 ]
The Detroit Institute of the Arts will open two new art exhibitions that focus on work by Black artists Friday, Dec. 17. Black fashion photographers, 85-year-old painter celebrated in new DIA exhibits
Belle Isle Park, known simply as Belle Isle (/ b ɛ l ˈ aɪ ə l /), is a 982-acre (1.534 sq mi; 397 ha) island park in Detroit, Michigan, developed in the late 19th century. It consists of Belle Isle , an island in the Detroit River , as well as several surrounding islets.