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Last week we adventured to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It's a place any steampunk would love, and we highly recommend that you visit!
The first day was the trip to the museum. You may think that the Ford Museum would feature a great many cars...
...and you would be right. But there was much, much more! One of the first exhibits you encounter upon entering the museum is Thomas Edison's last breath, preserved in a test tube.
There were also homages to the Industrial Revolution...
historic fire engines...
...and locomotives, all under one roof.
For the futurists among us, there was also the Dymaxion House, designed by Buckminster Fuller for the family of 1946 and an abode that we would happily live in today:
The second day we went to Greenfield Village, and my mind was promptly blown when I learned that Thomas Edison's laboratory from Menlo Park had been moved to Dearborn and reassembled, as closely to the original arrangement as could be.
It really must be seen to be believed.
Also, there were locomotives and Model Ts to ride around in!
There was also an amazing clock tower, originally located in London's Cheapside district and moved to Greenfield Village in the early 1930s:
...and a working, gorgeously detailed carousel constructed in 1913.
Really, we can't recommend it enough. Go and visit history!
