Events by Month

This year, the Detroit Historical Museum honors the legacy of toil and resistance in the Black community through the lens of the urban agriculture movement.

African Americans have a unique relationship to land as a way of belonging and placemaking. From the largely agrarian South to the industrial North, Black Americans used gardens as a means to sustain and also to remember. Take part in a day-long exploration and celebration of this legacy with a panel discussion, craft activities, vendor marketplace and more!

Join us to celebrate Detroit's Jazz Festival, currently on display in the Detroit Artists Showcase, with the exhibition's guest writer Veronica Johnson. 

Please note that the museum will be closed to the public to accommodate this event!

This tour is SOLD OUT! Please call 313.833.1801 for wait list information.

Discover beer making at its finest on this tour! Although the brewery was founded in 1997, Atwater has made it their goal to return Detroit back to its brewing roots. Starting with the goal of bringing back Bohemian style lager made famous by Stroh’s in the 1800’s, Atwater is not only a Detroit company, but is a vital part of preserving Detroit’s beer and cultural history.

Emerging from the Arab Film Festival, the Arab Film Series @ AANM is a collaborative effort between Cinema Lamont, the Charles H. Wright Museum and the Arab American National Museum (AANM). The series brings a wide range of new and classic films by Arab and Arab American filmmakers to the doorstep of metro Detroit, uniting community members through film, dialogue and activism.

Brooklyn Inshallah
5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2020
Aliya Hassan Auditorium @ AANM

After much consideration and in alignment with the requests of our governor, the Detroit Historical Museum is postponing this event. Please watch for a rescheduled date. Click here for more information about our Coronavirus response.

The year: 1926. The setting: Detroit, Michigan. The crime: murder.

After much consideration and in alignment with the requests of our governor, the Detroit Historical Society is postponing this tour. Please watch for a rescheduled date. Click here for more information about our Coronavirus response.

After much consideration and in alignment with the requests of our governor, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum is postponing this event. Please watch for a rescheduled date. Click here for more information about our Coronavirus response.

Please note that this year's conference has been cancelled by its organizers!

This conference is held annually in the Wayne/Oakland/Macomb tri-county area by the Historical Society of Michigan and is open to anyone interested in state or regional history.

The 62nd annual Michigan in Perspective: The Local History Conference will be held March 27 & 28, 2020, in Sterling Heights at the Sterling Banquet & Conference Center.

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After much consideration and in alignment with the requests of our governor, the Detroit Historical Society is postponing this tour. Please watch for a rescheduled date. Click here for more information about our Coronavirus response.

After much consideration and in alignment with the requests of our governor, the Detroit Historical Museum is postponing this event. Please watch for a rescheduled date. Click here for more information about our Coronavirus response.