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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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Spark Summer Camp

Grades 6 – 8 | July 27 - August 7 | 9 AM – 4 PM

For middle-school students passionate about music, we offer Spark, a day camp that helps students write and perform music together...

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Motown MIC: The Spoken Word Competition

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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Events

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

Detroit Bass Day is back and feeling psychedelic!

August 15

Esther Gordy Edwards Centre for Excellence

FREE

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Motown Monday On Martha’s Vineyard

August 10, 2026

MVCMA Tabernacle
80 Trinity Park, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

Free Admission

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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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Live From Motown Museum on Smokey’s Soul Town (SiriusXM - Channel 74) Saturday’s 2pm EST

Detroit Bass Day is back and feeling psychedelic!

August 15

Esther Gordy Edwards Centre for Excellence

FREE

Detroit Bass Day is back and feeling psychedelic!

Join us on Saturday, August 15, from 12–4 p.m. for Detroit Bass Day 2026 as we honor Motown bass icon James Jamerson, present the ICON Award to the legendary Paul Riser Sr, and celebrate the bass of Motor City Music.

Come Plug & Play with Detroit bassists at the Esther Gordy Edwards Centre for Excellence as they take us on a one-of-a-kind Psychedelic Soul Mega Jam, performing classic Motown hits that helped define the psychedelic soul era. Can you dig it?!

Featuring special performances by Kern Brantley, Emily Rogers, Red Campbell, Brad Russell, Drey Skonie, The Temptations Revue featuring Paul Williams Jr., Gator Moore, Red Campbell, Condido Live, and more!

Detroit Bass Day 2026
Esther Gordy Edwards Centre for Excellence – Berry Gordy Jr. Blvd., 2550 West Grand Blvd., Detroit, MI 40208
Admission: FREE
No RSVP required

Presented by:

One Global Band

Kern Brantley Presents | The Kresge Foundation | CultureSource | Detroit Music | Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation | Hudson Webber Foundation | Detroit Bass Federation