Events by Month

December 2022

December 3, 2022

Noel Night

5:00pm to 9:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

10:00am to 5:00pm
Dossin Great Lakes Museum

Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for free on Sundays in December! 

December 4, 2022

Free Holiday Sundays

1:00pm to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

7:00pm to 9:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

Free Holiday Sundays

10:00am to 5:00pm
Dossin Great Lakes Museum

Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for free on Sundays in December! 

December 11, 2022

Detroit Modern: Book Talk & Signing

1:00pm to 2:30pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

1:00pm to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

5:30pm to 9:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

10:00am to 5:00pm
Dossin Great Lakes Museum

Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum for free on Sundays in December! 

December 18, 2022

Free Holiday Sundays

1:00pm to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

2:00pm to 4:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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 19, 2022

Detroit Opera House

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Tickets available now!

Long known for attracting artists from around the globe, the Detroit Opera House continues to bring exciting performances to its stage after 100 years! Get your dancing shoes on as we swoon over the stories of performers and the building’s incredible architecture.

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December 28, 2022

Holiday Week Hours

10:00am to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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.

Holiday Week Hours

10:00am to 5:00pm
Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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

10:00am to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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.

Holiday Week Hours

10:00am to 5:00pm
Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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

12:00pm to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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

10:00am to 5:00pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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.

Holiday Week Hours

10:00am to 5:00pm
Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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

1:00pm to 2:30pm
Detroit Historical Museum

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