Michigan Arts & Entertainment
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Gallery of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores |
Detroit
The
Michigan Opera House
has superb acoustics and an orchestra pit large enough to accommodate 100 musicians.
The restored 1922 theater is the home of Michigan Opera Theatre, which produces
grand opera and presents a dance season. www.michiganopera.org
The
Detroit Institute of Arts, the fifth-largest fine arts museum in the
country, offers over 100 galleries with art from ancient to modern times. Among
the DIA's renowned works are French Impressionist, German Expressionist, American
and Flemish paintings, Italian, African, Asian, Native American, Egyptian and
20th-century art, and Diego Rivera's finest fresco. www.dia.org
Farmington
Hills
Marvin's Marvelous
Mechanical Museum Located
in Farmington Hills, Michigan, this museum is a wonderland packed with animatronic
dummies, model airplanes, video games, pinball machines, and kiddie rides. The
video games all work, and range from classics of the early 80s to current favorites.
www.marvin3m.com [Read about this and other Museums]
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Grand Traverse Lighthouse |
Golden Coast Lighthouses
Thanks to its location on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay near the once-bustling Manitou Passage, Traverse City is a convenient base for exploring five historic lighthouses, all located in a relatively compact area. Best of all, four of the five can be easily visited: three are open for tours, and one even allows visitors to spend a week or two in residence as volunteer lighthouse keepers. [Read]
Grosse
Pointe Shores
Experience the gracious lifestyle
of one of America's most distinguished families at Edsel
& Eleanor Ford House, an extraordinary 87-acre estate just outside
of Detroit. Designed in 1926 by renowned architect Albert Kahn, the house stands
amid breathtaking grounds designed by landscape architect
Jens Jensen.
fordhouse.org |
