Thursday, March 18, 2010

Detroit and his car museums

Sport, autómoviles and the characteristic sound Motown, there are some of the characteristics for which the people visit Detroit, the biggest and animated city of Michigan. Detroit was known like Engine Town due to his big concentration of factories of motorcars, an industrial muscle that in spite of the enormous crisis in the sector keeps on providing name, style and rhythm to the city. Nevertheless, in last two decades, Detroit has turned into a much more healthy and attractive metropolis for the visitor. His new companies, new residential areas, and new artistic and commercial centers have contributed to his renewed optimism.

Sights:

– although any of his factories organizes tours, the visitor can do an idea of this symbol to himself to his step along Henry J Ford Museum, where it is impossible not to marvel before the extraordinary collection of motorcars, of the 50s, his aerodynamic designs, his colors cake and his majestic dimensions.

– along with this one there finds The Automotive Entrance hall of Fame, museum dedicated in memory of the men and women who dedicated his professional life to the motor-car industry; between them, designers, inventors, educators, journalists and pilots of cars of careers.

– opened in the public also there is the house of Henry Ford, a mansion placed to 15 minutes of the center of the city, in the campus of the University of Míchigan, constructed in 1914, which consists of 56 rooms and its own electrical generator constructed by Thomas Edison.

– to 40 kilometers to the north of the center, given to the university of Oakland, we meet Meadow Brook Entrance hall, the hearth of Matilda Dodge Wilson, the widow of another pioneer of the automotive industry, John Dodge.

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