We're celebrating our 90th birthday by looking, decade by decade, at significant additions to our collection. During the 1940s, we acquired the first functional helicopter, a spinning wheel used by Gandhi, and built a replica of a cabin.

We're celebrating our 90th birthday by looking, decade by decade, at significant additions to our collection. During the 1930s, we acquired the Wright Cycle Shop, a sweetmeat dish used by Alexander Hamilton, and a jacquard loom.

This year, The Henry Ford celebrates its 90th anniversary. We’ll be reflecting on additions to our collection. Take a look at our earliest acquisitions.

We’ve just digitized dozens of photos of the elaborate camping trips of Vagabonds, a quartet including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, businessman Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs.

We’ve just digitized about two dozen food boxes, cans, bottles, and jars dating from the 1920s to the 2000s, which formerly contained anchovies, oyster sauce, truffles, and more.

Henry Ford sought a way to teach about everyday life. He did so by not only collecting the objects but by setting out to collect memories. This was done by instructing museum assistants H.M Cordell and J.A. Humberstone to create a questionnaire.

Rare collection of correspondence reflects the process of relocating Wright brothers’ buildings to Greenfield Village.

Enamored with the village greens he had seen in New England, Henry Ford envisioned Greenfield Village’s commons to be flanked by structures meant for public gatherings, such as a place of worship and a town hall.

Known as the “Golden Age of Illustration,” the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century were a prosperous time to be an artist in the business of illustration.

On October 10, 1901, Henry Ford made history by overcoming the favored Alexander Winton in his first-ever automobile race. Learn how we translated that event into the introductory display for our exhibition Driven to Win: Racing in America.