Henry Ford Museum
Museum

Located in Dearborn, Michigan, the Henry Ford Museum began as a personal collection of historical items belonging to the automotive pioneer. It has grown into a major museum dedicated to everyday items that have been central to the American experience and that have witnessed key moments in the nation’s past. The exhibits are held within a single-story building with a huge 40-foot ceiling, and include the camp bed used by the very first president, George Washington, during the War of Independence; the chair in which Lincoln sat when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865; laboratory items owned by Thomas Edison; and the Presidential Limousine in which Kennedy was shot in Dallas on 22 November 1963.