Events by Month

February 2021

February 6, 2021

New Baltimore Grand Pacific House Museum - Tour #2

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Limited tickets still available!

Two tour dates! Take a trip down memory lane to visit the only remaining hotel of its kind in the area. Built in 1881, it was once a vacation destination for many Detroiters.

February 13, 2021

Virtual Tour! Windsor Masonic Temple Tour #2

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Limited tickets still available!

Two tour dates! This Neoclassical wonder has been closed to the public for almost a century. Explore the mysterious building from the comfort of your own home.

February 17, 2021

Blue Beacon Series: Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Tuskegee Airmen

7:00pm to 7:55pm

For centuries, African Americans fought for greater roles in U.S. military conflicts, but quotas, exclusionary practices, racial discrimination and prevailing attitudes limited their participation. During the middle period of WWII, the ‘Tuskegee Aviation Experience’ was launched as the Army Air Corps program to train the nation’s first African-American military aviators to fly, fight, maintain combat aircraft and help win World War II (WWII).

Blue Beacon Series: Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Tuskegee Airmen

7:00pm to 7:55pm

For centuries, African Americans fought for greater roles in U.S. military conflicts, but quotas, exclusionary practices, racial discrimination and prevailing attitudes limited their participation. During the middle period of WWII, the ‘Tuskegee Aviation Experience’ was launched as the Army Air Corps program to train the nation’s first African-American military aviators to fly, fight, maintain combat aircraft and help win World War II (WWII).

February 18, 2021

Virtual Third Thursday Speaker Series: Museums in the 2020s

6:30pm to 7:30pm
Detroit Historical Museum
Join in one of the biggest conversations in the museum field right now: in the wake of a year of cultural conversation, what can museums do to center marginalized voices?
 

Virtual Third Thursday Speaker Series: Museums in the 2020s

6:30pm to 7:30pm
Join in one of the biggest conversations in the museum field right now: in the wake of a year of cultural conversation, what can museums do to center marginalized voices?
 

February 20, 2021

Parade Company Tour #2

11:00am to 12:30pm

Limited tickets still available!

Two tour dates! Come be a kid again, and even bring your young one, to immerse yourself in a wonderland of color and excitement at The Parade Company Studio.

February 25, 2021

That They Lived: In Conversation with Rochelle Riley

6:00pm to 6:55pm
Detroit Historical Museum

The Detroit Historical Society's Black Historic Sites Committee presents an evening with Detroit's very own Rochelle Riley. The award-winning journalist and the city of Detroit's Director of Arts and Culture will discuss her new book, That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed The World with the Society's Senior Director of Education and Programs, Malika Pryor, live on zoom.

Books will be available for purchase in the museum store and online.

That They Lived: In Conversation with Rochelle Riley

6:00pm to 6:55pm

The Detroit Historical Society's Black Historic Sites Committee presents an evening with Detroit's very own Rochelle Riley. The award-winning journalist and the city of Detroit's Director of Arts and Culture will discuss her new book, That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed The World with the Society's Senior Director of Education and Programs, Malika Pryor, live on zoom.

Books will be available for purchase in the museum store and online.

That They Lived: In Conversation with Rochelle Riley

6:00pm to 6:55pm

The Detroit Historical Society's Black Historic Sites Committee presents an evening with Detroit's very own Rochelle Riley. The award-winning journalist and the city of Detroit's Director of Arts and Culture will discuss her new book, That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed The World with the Society's Senior Director of Education and Programs, Malika Pryor, live on zoom.

Books will be available for purchase in the museum store and online.

February 27, 2021

Collections Resource Center

11:00am to 12:30pm

SOLD OUT!

The Collections Resource Center (CRC) of the Detroit Historical Society houses a collection of more than 250,000 artifacts, from futuristic prototypes to original city maps.