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The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute) is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana. The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.
Henry Ford said of his museum:
"I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used.... When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition..."
The Henry Ford is the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in
America. Patrons enter at the gate, passing by the Josephine Ford
Memorial Fountain and Benson Ford Research Center. Nearly one hundred
historical buildings were moved to the property from their original
locations and arranged in a "village" setting. The museum's intent is to
show how Americans
lived and worked since the founding of the country. The Village
includes buildings from the 17th century to the present, many of which
are staffed by costumed interpreters who conduct period tasks like farming, sewing and cooking. A collection of craft
buildings such as pottery, glass-blowing, and tin shops provide
demonstrations while producing materials used in the Village and for
sale. Greenfield Village has 240 acres (970,000 m²) of land of which
only 90 acres (360,000 m²) are used for the attraction, the rest being
forest, river and extra pasture for the sheep and horses.
- Noah Webster's Connecticut home
- the Wright brothers' bicycle shop and home from Dayton, Ohio
- A replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory complex from New Jersey
- Henry Ford's birthplace
- Henry Ford's prototype garage where he built the Ford Quadricycle
- Harvey Firestone family farm from Columbiana, Ohio
- the Logan County, Illinois courthouse where Abraham Lincoln practiced law
- William Holmes McGuffey's birthplace
- Luther Burbank's office
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