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We are closed on New Years Day, Memorial Day, Easter Sunday, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Years Eve

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Motown Museum is the beating heart of the extraordinary Motown legacy—a destination that brings together people and ideas from different generations, and celebrates the past while simultaneously building a bridge to the future.

About Motown Museum

To ensure our vast collection maintains public visibility, and to keep things fresh for our guests, Motown Museum changes its main gallery exhibit 1-2 times per year. Here is what’s currently showing at our museum.

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Motown Museum transports you into an era of musical magic. From the moment you step on the plaza, you’ll be immersed in the Motown sound and will experience a profound sense of history.

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Hitsville NEXT Programs

Our uniquely curated community programs emphasize education, entrepreneurship and equity—with experiences, mentoring and exposure that nurtures and elevates tomorrow’s history makers. Museum programs cultivate creativity and entrepreneurship in budding talent, allowing great art, big ideas and innovation to flourish.

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MOTOWN MIC: The Spoken Word Competition

Ages 16+ | Open Auditions

Motown Mic: The Spoken Word was created to pay homage to Motown Records’ Black Forum Label— a Motown spoken word label created by Berry Gordy and the Motown Corporation in the ‘70s....

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Ignite Summer Camp

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Ignite Summer Camp

9 - 12 Grade | July 11 - 21

Ignite offers a day program for high-school-age singers and songwriters to engage deeply in artistic visioning, collaborative performance, group lessons, and workshops focused on artist development....

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Spark Summer Camp

6 – 8 Grade | August 1 - 11

Spark is a day camp that provides middle-school-aged participants the opportunity to write and perform music together, explore career opportunities in the music industry, dig into the legacy of Motown, and foster creativity and artistry....

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Events

From memorable galas and concert performances, to community celebrations and educational programs, we host a range of special events throughout the year.

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Hitsville NEXT Events

Motown MIC: The Spoken Word Competition

September 22, 2023

The Cube, Detroit

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AMPLIFY: the Sound of Detroit Finale

March 15, 2023

Gem Theatre Detroit

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Private Events

Interested in hosting your own event at Motown?

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Motown Legacy

As an irresistible force of social and cultural change, the legendary Motown portfolio made its mark not just on the music industry, but society at large, with a signature Motown Sound that has become one of the most significant musical accomplishments and stunning success stories of the 20th century.

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Like many other African Americans in the early 20th century, Berry Gordy, Sr. and his wife, Bertha Fuller Gordy, came North from Georgia to find a better life for themselves and their family.

Gordy Family

Motown is an extended family of some of the most iconic and influential artists, musicians and songwriters of our time. Brought together by destiny through their love for making music, they found themselves making history.

Motown Artists

The culmination of years of planning, hard work and generous contributions from dedicated donors, the highly anticipated, $50 million Motown Museum expansion project will grow the museum campus to a 50,000-square-foot world-class entertainment and education tourist destination.

Expansion

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When you contribute to the Motown Museum, you become part of a rich musical and cultural legacy. We are a 501(c)(3) not for profit, tax-exempt organization in Detroit.

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Board of Trustees

Motown Museum consists of a dedicated board of trustees, each carrying a passion for developing and executing the mission and vision of the nonprofit organization.

FY: 2020-2021

Robin Terry (President) | Chairwoman & CEO, Motown Museum
Karla Hall-Trammell (Vice President) | Vice President (retired), DTE Energy Foundation
Derek Hurt (Secretary) | President, Derek A. Hurt, PLC
Mort Noveck (Treasurer) | Partner, Alspector, Sosin & Noveck, PLLC
Elesha Bridgers | President, Esther Gordy Bullock Edwards Foundation
Ethan Davidson | Trustee, William Davidson Foundation
Iris Gordy | Vice President (retired), Motown Records
Mary Culler | President, Ford Motor Company Fund
Jon Platt | Chairman & CEO, Sony Music Publishing
Allen Rawls | Independent Consultant, Architectural and Urban Design
Rhonda Ross Kendrick | President, Makeda Music, Film & Television, LLC
Jimmy Settles | Group Executive of Neighborhoods (retired), City of Detroit
Levi Stubbs III | VP of Business Development and Community Relations, Systems Technology Group

Trustees Emeritus

Paul Czarnik | Co-Founder, MadDog Technology
Joanne Jackson | Co-Founder, Golden World Records
Myrna Webb | Vice President (retired), Hudson Securities