300 River Place, Suite 1600, Detroit 48207
(313) 259-3425
Experience Everything Automotive! MotorCities National Heritage Area was created by Congress to preserve, promote and interpret Michigan's rich automotive and labor heritage through educational opportunities about Michigan heritage, world-class museums and venues, tours of amazing historic homes built by auto barons, and more.
MotorCities is known for many things - jazz and the Motown sound, beautiful lakes and rivers, professional sports, vibrant entertainment, and some of the top cultural attractions in the world. But, by far, when asked what comes to mind when one thinks of the MotorCities, it can only be one thing - the Automobile Capital of the World! Flint and Genesee County are home to many automotive attractions that are part of the MotorCities National Heritage Area including: AUTO CITY SPEEDWAY
The Kearsley Street Campus of the Flint Cultural Center includes: Alfred P. Sloan Museum, Bower Theater, Buick Gallery & Research Center, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, Flint Symphony Orchestra, Flint Youth Theater, Longway Planetarium, and The Whiting. For additional information, please refer to the individual links below. KETTERING COLLECTION OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY--SCHARCHBURG ARCHIVES
1700 W. Third Ave., Flint 48504
(810) 762-9890
A premier engineering school with a world renowned automotive archive - Kettering University is the site of the largest collection of automotive papers-the Scharchburg Archives. Richard P. Scharchburg was instrumental in the establishment of The Kettering/GMI Alumni Foundation Collection of Industrial History in 1974. When he died in 2000, the collection was renamed in his honor. Scharchburg dedicated his life's work to automotive history.
SLOAN MUSEUM WHALEY HISTORICAL HOUSE MUSEUM
