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• Detroit Institute of Arts
  The Detroit Institute of Arts, DIA, was called the Detroit Museum of Art at first, and today has the one of the biggest and most prominent art collections in the country. In 2003, it was the second biggest municipally-owned museum in the country with a collection worth more than a billion dollars. Over 100 galleries covering over 677,000 square feet that was added to in 2007 and added another 77,000 square feet, contains a magnificent collection. The building is considered a masterpiece itself and the original structure was designed by Paul Cret and is now flanked on both the east and west with wings covered by marble exterior and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The first painting was donated in 1883 and now sits in a collection of 65,000 and the museum has become an encyclopedic museum, not any specific kind, but rather a collection that spans the world, from ancient Egypt to contemporary works. It is in the Cultural Center of the city, just two miles north of downtown, by Wayne State University. Over the decades, it has become one of the most impressive museums in the nation, ranking by paintings as the third biggest in the country. Almost immediately after starting, its collection began to grow, with strong influences by Americans in the areas of decorative arts, paintings, furniture, and sculpture from the 18th to the 20th centuries that include such notable artists as Andrew Wyeth, John James Audubon, James McNeill Whistler, George Bellows, William T. Williams, George Caleb Bingham, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Mary Cassatt, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dale Chihuly, Gilbert Stuart, Frederic Edwin Church, Tony Smith, Thomas Cole, John French Sloan, John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent, Leon Dabo, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Paul Revere, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Remington, Childe Hassam, Sharon Que, Robert Henri, Hiram Powers, Winslow Homer, Duncan Phyfe, George Inness, Tom Phardel, Georgia O'Keefe, Rembrandt Peale and Wilson Peale. During the early 20th century, the museum was collecting a great number of pieces, like the dragon tile relief off the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, Pieter Bruegel the elder's The Wedding Dance, an Egyptian relief of Mourning Women and statuette of a Seated Scribe, St. Jerome in his Study by Jan van Eyck and Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Child. Paintings that were bought included the French artists Eugene Boudin, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Odilon Redon; as well as other old masters like Peter Paul Rubens, Gerard ter Borch, Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijin. In 1922, a Vincent van Gogh self portrait was procured, as well as the Window by Henri Matisse. The museum was acquiring some of the most beautiful paintings in the world and bringing them here to the United States to showcase the marvelous works of these great artists and more. Plan to spend some time here.

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• Detroit Historical Museum
  The Detroit Historical Museum is located in the city's museum district and tells of the history of the city from its early cobblestone street days to the 19th century stores, auto assembly lines, toy trains and fur trades of the 1700s; as well as so much more. Clarence M. Barton, local lawyer and historian gave his collection to the city public library in 1914 that eventually led to the opening of the Detroit Historical Museum. During 1921, he brought 19 prominent local historians together to start the Detroit Historical Society, that would be devoted to the city's history, and in 1927, offices were leased and treasurer of the society J. Bell Morgan was to set up the museum. In 1928, a curator was hired to oversee the highest museum in the world, opening in a one room suite on the 23rd floor of the Barlum Tower, which has become the Cadillac Tower. The collection continued to grow over the decades and today houses some 200,000 relics, and has become one of the oldest and biggest museums in the country today that is devoted to metropolitan history. Some of the permanent exhibits include the Streets of Old Detroit, Frontiers to Factories, Motor City exhibit and much more. These all represent over 300 years of history, and one of the most influential cities of our time; making most of the automobiles of the last century, which has gone the way of so many companies in this country. Outsourced to cheaper countries, with cheap labor and less taxes, the manufacturer of today isn't interested in his neighbors or countrymen but has put on the thick skin of greediness and selfishness that seems to be slowly eating this country away. The days of the motor city has gone as many other industries have gone, leaving only the scares of slums and worn out people that have just about nothing to look forward to and even less for the youth of these areas that have given up to the cheap countries of the world, that will some day face these problems themselves until there are no unions left to help or protect the people that they were born to help, to promote and to get a fair day's wage for good day's work.

January 11, 2011