Special exhibit titled “Collecting Mobility: New Objects, New Stories” opens this morning at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Runs through January 2, 2022.

Featuring “More than 30 rarely seen recent additions to The Henry Ford’s mobility collection,” curators seek to answer the question, “What makes an object museum-worthy?

Collecting Mobility: New Objects, New Stories takes you behind the scenes at The Henry Ford to show you how we continue to grow our vast collection of more than 26 million artifacts, from everyday items to technological breakthroughs.

Through the lens of recent additions to our mobility collections, … we pose the question, ‘What belongs in a museum?’ From collecting the everyday to looking ahead to what museums should be collecting for the future, guests will walk away with a better understanding of how and why museums collect what they do and the stories their collections share ….