Top rated History museums in Ann Arbor, United States to elevate your visit (Updated March, 2024)

Top rated History museums in Ann Arbor

Experience the best that Ann Arbor has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 20 places from History museum category.

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Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Museum

Exhibits explore African-American history from the Middle Passage to the Underground Railroad.

4.80 (3.2K reviews) (~57.18 km from centre)

Detroit Historical Museum

History museum

Museum features interactive & revolving exhibits on the city's history, including recreated streets.

4.80 (1.6K reviews) (~56.69 km from centre)

Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Museum

Museum

Restored 1904 factory for the Ford Model T featuring historical tours & many original cars.

4.80 (1.4K reviews) (~57.01 km from centre)

Zekelman Holocaust Center

History museum

Sobering museum featuring a WWII-era boxcar & other local & global stories of the Nazi regime.

4.80 (202 reviews) (~40.3 km from centre)

Lenawee Historical Society

Local history museum

👍👍 Love taking the kids here and showing them the history of lenawee county. Has a lot of cool things like the "car company" that's one of my favorite historical facts of Adrian Michigan.

4.80 (71 reviews) (~48.91 km from centre)

Motown Museum

Museum

Collection of the label's art & memorabilia plus the famous studio A & The Supremes' costumes.

4.70 (5.3K reviews) (~55.04 km from centre)

Sauder Village

Non-profit organization

👍👍 We're sitting in the Pharmacy and Soda Fountain right now sharing a hot cocoa. It was snowing earlier but it's just freezing rain now. This was really good tonight. We took a free horse drawn trolley ride which was a better choice versus the very cold metal seats of the train. This was an excellen...

4.70 (1.4K reviews) (~94.03 km from centre)

Michigan History Center

History museum

5-level venue featuring permanent & special interactive exhibits, artifacts & educational programs.

4.70 (984 reviews) (~83.46 km from centre)

Fort Meigs Historic Site

Open air museum

Replica of a fort built during the War of 1812, with battlefield reenactments & museum exhibits.

4.70 (818 reviews) (~81.58 km from centre)

Mill Race Historical Village

Historical society

Living museum village of restored & replica 19th-century buildings, plus a local history archive.

4.70 (491 reviews) (~27.77 km from centre)

Troy Historic Village

Museum

Preserved town buildings from the 1800s with history exhibits, including a log cabin, church & home.

4.70 (248 reviews) (~59.17 km from centre)

George P. MacNichol House

History museum

👍👍 Staff are knowledgeable and nice. The museum has all kinds of neat pieces from the past, and a cool history of Wyandotte timeline in the basement. Plus, the house is gorgeous

4.70 (51 reviews) (~50.03 km from centre)

Ypsilanti Historical Museum & Archives

Museum

👍👍 This is a great museum covering the history of Ypsilanti and what it was like living in a Victorian home.

4.70 (46 reviews) (~11.88 km from centre)

Sloan Museum Archives

History museum

👍👍 Amazing history, especially if like me your whole family worked between Buick, Chevrolet, and AC/Delphi.

4.70 (35 reviews) (~82.66 km from centre)

Monroe County Museum

History museum

👍👍 This museum is very well put together and we learned lot about the area!

4.60 (153 reviews) (~49.89 km from centre)

Automotive Hall of Fame

Museum

25,000-sq.-ft. museum honoring auto industry pioneers, with exhibits of early automobiles.

4.60 (78 reviews) (~42.08 km from centre)

Stockton Center at Spring Grove

History museum

👍👍 What an awesome event at Stockton Center! So much fun! Can't wait to go to the Haunted Tea again next year!

4.60 (32 reviews) (~81.15 km from centre)

Fisher Mansion

History museum

👍👍 Just the presence of this place is awesome. It feels old and in need of new energy, but it holds an indestructible energy!

4.50 (62 reviews) (~66.56 km from centre)

Turner-Dodge House

History museum

👍👍 Love this history of this home near Old Town in Lansing! This was the first year I was able to showcase a tree for the Festival of Trees! Also had my BIG 40th Birthday here!

4.50 (47 reviews) (~84.06 km from centre)

Cambridge Junction Historic State Park

State park

👍 Cambridge Junction Historic State Park iz a 80 acre (32HA) state park in Cambridge Township, 3 milez south of Brooklyn, Michigan. wit a average elevation of 994 feet (303M) It iz da site of Walker Tavern, a major stopping place 4 stagecoachez travelin between Detroit & Chicago in da early 19th centu...

4.30 (57 reviews) (~46.07 km from centre)

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Top rated History museums in Ann Arbor, United States