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Embassy Suites Detroit Livonia Hotel / Novi is a first class,
all-suite hotel perfectly suited for your visit to The Henry
Ford Museum.
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The Edison Institute illustrates Henry Ford's personal commitment
to preserving the record of America's technological and cultural
progress.
The success of the Model T allowed Ford to pursue a number
of avocations. Particularly interested in the nation's past,
by 1920 Ford was determined to start a museum that would emphasize
industrial history and thereby "give people a true picture
of the development of the country." Ford had decided
that the best way to create this picture would be in two parts.
An exhibit hall would display inventions and artifacts that
recorded man's technological and cultural progress, while
an adjacent outdoor village of residential, commercial, and
industrial architecture would show how those objects were
made and used. Opening in 1933, the museum included many items
from Ford's collection, from automobiles to player pianos,
from steam engines to grease pumps. Ford also built some new
structures for the collection of buildings he named Greenfield
Village, most notably a replica of Independence Hall that
was located at the entrance of the complex.
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