Events by Month
December 3, 2022
Noel Night
Visit the Detroit Historical Museum on Noel Night! Admission is free with no registration required.
Event schedule:
LEGENDS PLAZA
5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. - Detroit Handbell Ensemble performs
IN THE MUSEUM
December 4, 2022
Free Holiday Sundays
Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for free on Sundays in December!
December 9, 2022
All Is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914
SOLD OUT!
Contact office@peppermintcreek.org for wait list information.
After a SOLD OUT run last season, Lansing-based Peppermint Creek Theatre Company brings back this moving holiday event performed at venues across the state! See it on Friday, December 9 at the Detroit Historical Museum.
December 11, 2022
Detroit Modern: Book Talk & Signing
Join us for a special presentation on Detroit Modern, followed by a book signing in the auditorium with the author and photographer. Peter Forguson and Amy Claeys will share their fascinating journey behind the scenes creating Detroit Modern.
Free Holiday Sundays
Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for free on Sundays in December!
At the Detroit Historical Museum on December 11:
Join us from 1-2:30 pm for a book talk and signing for Detroit Modern. Click here for more information.
December 16, 2022
Dinner and a Movie: Christmas at the Holly Hotel
Join us for this special holiday event! Dinner and a Movie: Benefit for the Holly Hotel Arcade and Streets of Old Detroit – rebuilding after fire at the Hotel and flood in the Streets.
This festive evening will include:
- Strolling dinner with beer and wine in the Streets of Old Detroit exhibition
- Meet and greets with Detroit Historical Society historians, Holly Hotel owner George Kutlenios, and film producer Joel Reisig
- Film screening
December 18, 2022
Free Holiday Sundays
Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for free on Sundays in December!
At the Detroit Historical Museum on December 18:
Join us from 2-4 pm for a matinee screening of Chistmas at the Holly Hotel ($10 admission for members, $20 guests). Click here for more information.
December 18, 2022
Matinee Screening: Christmas at the Holly Hotel
Join us for this special holiday film screening! Benefiting the Holly Hotel Arcade and Streets of Old Detroit – rebuilding after fire at the Hotel and flood in the Streets.
About the film: Christmas at the Holly Hotel is a new film made on location at the Historic Holly Hotel in Holly, Michigan.
December 28, 2022
Holiday Week Hours
The Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum will be open with special holiday week hours from Wednesday, December 28 - Friday, December 30. Regular admission prices will be in effect.
*Please note that both museums will be closed on December 31 and January 1.
December 29, 2022
Holiday Week Hours
The Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum will be open with special holiday week hours from Wednesday, December 28 - Friday, December 30. Regular admission prices will be in effect.
*Please note that both museums will be closed on December 31 and January 1.
December 29, 2022
Bruce Kopytek Book Signing
Stop by on Thursday, December 29 between 12 p.m.-5 p.m. in our Hudson’s Holidays exhibition to meet Bruce Kopytek and to purchase a signed copy of his latest book, Hudson’s Detroit’s World-Famous Department Store.
December 30, 2022
Holiday Week Hours
The Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum will be open with special holiday week hours from Wednesday, December 28 - Friday, December 30. Regular admission prices will be in effect.
*Please note that both museums will be closed on December 31 and January 1.
December 30, 2022
Jean Alicia Elster Book Talk & Signing
Join us Friday, December 30 at 1p.m. for a special presentation and book signing by author Jean Alicia Elster on her books How It Happens, The Colored Car, and Who’s Jim Hines? in the Allesee Gallery of Culture.
About the books:
How It Happens