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

Top rated History museums in Detroit

Experience the best that Detroit 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 59 places from History museum category.

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The Bicycle Museum of America

Museum

This museum focused on bicycle history has a large, rotating selection of models plus guided tours.

4.90 (257 reviews) (~238.29 km from centre)

Tiffin Glass Museum & Shoppe

Museum

Opened in 1998, this heritage museum explores the history of Tiffin glass via memorabilia & pieces.

4.90 (47 reviews) (~135.52 km from centre)

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) (~3.25 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) (~3.56 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) (~4.39 km from centre)

Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum

History museum

State-of-the-art museum pairs rare aircraft with flight simulators & 4D theaters plus amusements.

4.80 (1.2K reviews) (~206.86 km from centre)

MAPS Air Museum

History museum

Museum focusing on military flight history, with private & government collections & a pilot gallery.

4.80 (1.1K reviews) (~205.47 km from centre)

Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick

Museum

Museum of items collected by Raymond Buckland who started collecting in 1966.

4.80 (840 reviews) (~149.33 km from centre)

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums

Museum

Former estate of President Rutherford B. Hayes, featuring home tours, library, museum & grave site.

4.80 (800 reviews) (~110.28 km from centre)

Liberty Aviation Museum

Museum

👍👍 The museum is awesome with a great collection of military memorabilia, and a military themed gift shop… But the real attraction is the attached Tin Goose Diner. Great food at a great price with an amazingly unique atmosphere. The menu is WWII Themed. Go for both; you won’t be disappointed !!!

4.80 (622 reviews) (~92.73 km from centre)

Fallasburg Covered Bridge

Bridge

👍👍 It's a historic wooden covered bridge in a place that's exactly like someplace that would have a historic wooden covered bridge.. with the historic preserved small town of Fallasburg next to it...it would've been completely in place if horse draw carriages instead of cars were on the road. It's a ti...

4.80 (492 reviews) (~199.92 km from centre)

Historic Adventist Village

Museum

👍👍 Wow what a wonderful time we had. Our study group decided to take a field trip to see Adventist Village. It was a beautiful day we ate lunch on picnic tables and went on our tour. The tour was free, and they had volunteers that dressed up in the time period of the late 1800s. They gave tours of all...

4.80 (338 reviews) (~176.78 km from centre)

Victorian House Museum

History museum

👍👍 Beautiful Victorian House Museum. The historical society did a wonderful job in restoring this house. A must see if you in Amish Country visiting.

4.80 (217 reviews) (~218.33 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 (201 reviews) (~31.94 km from centre)

Arms Family Museum

History museum

Set in a 1905 home, this museum offers original period furnishings, fine artwork & other artifacts.

4.80 (150 reviews) (~241.41 km from centre)

Baseball Heritage Museum

History museum

👍👍 I love the history inside this museum. Plus it's free! Every r resident of Ohio should get to this museum at least once. It on of Cleveland's gems.

4.80 (133 reviews) (~147.59 km from centre)

Kent State University May 4 Visitors Center

History museum

Multi-media exhibits telling the story of the Kent State shootings, set in the context of the 1960s.

4.80 (132 reviews) (~192.9 km from centre)

Sanford Historical Museum

History museum

👍👍 Really cool little piece of history. Not sure if this place is ever open but when I went on Thursday it wasn't. Most rooms still had light and you could check out most of the stuff from outside. Didn't take to long to check it all out but for sure would stop if you were passing by. Like that everyth...

4.80 (115 reviews) (~185.05 km from centre)

Logan County History Center

History museum

👍👍 Wonderful museum! I was pleasantly surprised how much stuff there is to see. Museum docents were so friendly and helpful!! Museum is free but donations are welcome.

4.80 (93 reviews) (~226.82 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) (~94.9 km from centre)

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Top rated History museums in Detroit, United States