You walk in through the Woodward Avenue entrance, and for a second, you forget you’re in Michigan. Marble everywhere. A ceiling that seems to keep going. Then someone’s kid sprints past toward the armor gallery, and you remember: this is still a working museum, not a mausoleum. That contrast is basically the whole appeal of…

Detroit punches way above its weight when it comes to museums. This is a city that gave the world Motown, put the world on wheels, and anchors one of the great encyclopedic art collections in the United States all within a few square miles of Midtown. Add in a serious African American history museum, a…