Michigan
Discover Michigan Automotive Museums, Events, and History.

JAXON Auto Museum
The JAXON Auto Museum will be a car museum, event venue, and collector car storage facility in the former Jackson Automobile Company building.

Museum of Off Road Adventure
The Museum of Off-Road Adventure is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization founded for the purpose of educating about the history and continued development of four-wheel drive and off-highway travel. Featuring displays of vehicles, components, and memorabilia ranging from the early days of automotive history to the complex machines of today, a trip to the MORA should be on everyone’s bucket list!

Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (FPAP) is managed by a Board of Trustees and volunteer committees. The historic site is financially self-supported.

RE Olds Transportation Museum
The R E Olds Transportation Museum has thousands of irreplaceable items in the archives along with 63 vehicles that range from 1886 through 2003.

ROUSH Automotive Collection
The Roush Automotive Collection, located in Livonia Michigan, is a 30,000 sq. ft. private facility. Housed within the collection are 110+ vehicles.

Sloan Museum
At Sloan Museum’s Courtland Center Mall location, visitors can enjoy Dinosaurs Unearthed, as well as over 30 historic vehicles, and Wisner’s Whizbang Emporium, where families can play together.

The Carroll Collection
The primary purpose of The Carroll Collection is to celebrate the automotive genius of Carroll Shelby. The Carroll Collection is a semi-public museum.

Franklin Automobile Collection at Hickory Corners
The Franklin Automobile Collection is the permanent home of The H. H. Franklin Club’s collection of automobiles, display engines, and artifacts.

Stahls Automotive Foundation
The Stahls Automotive Foundation was chartered in 2005 by Ted Stahl to educate, motivate inspire young people about early automobiles.

The Henry Ford
The Henry Ford provides unique educational experiences based on authentic objects, stories, and lives from America’s traditions of ingenuity.

Wills Sainte Claire Auto Museum
Wills Sainte Clair Auto Museum features cars manufactured by C. H. Wills and Company, in Marysville, Michigan, from 1921-1926.

Ye Old Carriage Shop
Ye Ole Carriage Shop is a museum showcasing Lloyd Ganton’s collections. He has been collecting cars and memorabilia for 45 years.

Hackett Auto Museum
Scheduled to open Spring 2019! The Hackett Auto Museum will be a fresh & new large event venue housed in a historically significant former manufacturing facility.

Gilmore Car Museum
The Gilmore Car Museum is the North America’s Largest Auto Museum — over 300 cars on display, nearly 190,000 sq. ft. Exhibit space, 90 acres

The Automotive Hall of Fame
The Automotive Hall of Fame honors and celebrates the men and women of the automobile industry through their contributions, innovations, and stories.

Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum
Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum is an automotive museum featuring Corvair, Hydramatic, Tucker, Kaiser-Frazer, and Hudson displays.

Cadillac LaSalle Museum
Situated on the beautiful 90-acre campus of the Gilmore Car museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan, about midway between Detroit and Chicago. As one of the Gilmore partner museums, they join the Gilmore collections, the Classic Car Club of America Museum, the Pierce...
Discover Michigan Automotive Museums, Events, and History.
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MICHIGAN
Michigan is a midwestern U.S. state bordering 4 of the Great Lakes. It contains more than 11,000 inland lakes, spread across its lower and upper peninsulas. Its largest city, Detroit, is famed as the seat of the U.S. auto industry, which inspired Diego Rivera’s murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Also in Detroit is Hitsville U.S.A., original headquarters of the Motown record company.
AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY
Beginning in the early 1900s, Michigan has been a hub of activity for the Automotive Industry. Both Ford and Buick were founded in Michigan in 1903. Perhaps the most notable advancement for the Automotive industry occurred in 1913 at Ford’s Highland Park factory, the moving assembly line. This process greatly increased the rate at which vehicles could be produced, evidenced by the fact that by 1918 half of all American cars were a Ford Model T.
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