Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Ford Rouge Factory Tour and Giant Screen Experience will be closed Monday, March 16, for a day of staff learning and development. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Ford Rouge Factory Tour and Giant Screen Experience will be closed Monday, March 16, for a day of staff learning and development. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Curating & Preserving The Rosa Parks Bus

Written by
The Henry Ford Staff
Published
12/22/2025
Close up view of the street stop at the top of the front of the exterior of the bus
Learn how the bus on which Rosa Parks sat that day in 1955 was restored — going from a discarded relic in an Alabama field to one of the most popular artifacts in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

Curating & Preserving The Rosa Parks Bus

Written by
The Henry Ford Staff
Published
12/22/2025