Events by Month

May 2024

May 4, 2024

Opening Day: Kresge at 100 - Free Admission!

10:00am to 5:00pm

Celebrate the new exhibition Kresge at 100: A Century of Impact, a Future of Opportunity with free admission to the Detroit Historical Museum on Saturday. May 4!

May 5, 2024

Family Program: Scrap-enger Hunt

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Try your hand as a Hastings Street peddler! Go on a “Scrap-enger” hunt throughout In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street, Jewish Historical Society of Michigan’s exhibition located in the Robert and Mary Ann Bury Community Gallery (2nd floor).

May 5, 2024

Lecture: Catherine Cangany, PhD, "Kosher Meat Riot of 1910"

2:30pm to 4:00pm

To feed their families amid rapid inflation, fed-up Orthodox women took on the Gilded-Age robber barons' "Beef Trust." Join JHSM Executive Director, Catherine Cangany, PhD as she takes a deep dive into this forgotten event in Detroit’s past.

May 11, 2024

2024 Detroit Historical Society Ball: A Salute to the Legends

6:00pm to 10:00pm

Join the Detroit Historical Society Board of Trustees and Event Co-Chairs Margery Krevsky-Dosey, Leslye Rosenbaum, Linda Schlesinger-Wagner, and Lois Shaevsky for the 2024 Detroit Historical Society Ball, a Salute to the Legends, beginning the next 100 years!

May 16, 2024

Late Nights at the Museum - Free Admission!

5:00pm to 8:00pm

MAY 16 | JUNE 20 | JULY 11 | AUGUST 1

Admission to the Detroit Historical Museum is free from 5:00 - 8:00 pm, courtesy of the William Davidson Foundation!

No advance registration is necessary.

May 16, 2024

Panel Discussion: Black Bottom & I-375: Past, Present, and Future - Free Admission!

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Black Bottom was a thriving Black neighborhood when it was torn down to create a freeway in the name of “urban renewal.” Sixty years later, I-375 is slated to become grade level, presenting an opportunity for 31 acres of new development where Black Bottom once stood. What will that new development look like, who will benefit, can we repair past harms, and who decides and how?”  Panelists include Jamon Jordan (City of Detroit Official Historian), Adena Hill (Kresge Foundation’s Detroit Program), and a Downtown Detroit Partnership representative.

May 23, 2024

Embracing a City Seminar: Panel with Livestream - Free with Registration!

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Join us for an interactive discussion covering the impact that thirty years of bold partnerships, collaborations, and grantmaking by The Kresge Foundation have had in the city of Detroit. Led by author and award-winning Journalist John Gallagher, the panel includes community development specialists who have been on the front line of the change that has happened during this time.

 

May 23, 2024

Embracing a City Seminar: In-Person Panel Discussion - Free with Registration!

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Join us for an interactive discussion covering the impact that thirty years of bold partnerships, collaborations, and grantmaking by The Kresge Foundation have had in the city of Detroit. Led by author and award-winning Journalist John Gallagher, the panel includes community development specialists who have been on the front line of the change that has happened during this time.