Events by Month

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!

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 (2^nd floor).

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.

Ages 6+

Families are invited to join us for a group tour of the museum, featuring our Origins: Life Where the River Bends, America's Motor City and Streets of Old Detroit exhibitions. After the tour, participants are welcome to stay and explore the rest of the galleries.

$6 per child, $10 per adult (includes admission and programming for all participants)

Pre-registration is required

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!

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.