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Museum Hours

  • Monday: Closed
  • Tuesday: 10am-6pm
  • Wednesday: 10am-6pm
  • Thursday: 10am-6pm
  • Friday: 10am-6pm
  • Saturday: 10am-8pm
  • Sunday: 10am-6pm

Last Tour begins at 5:00pm.

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.

Current Exhibit

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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Lyric Project

9 - 12 Grade | June 17 – 27

Lyric Project is a two-week workshop that helps students learn about songwriting, music production, and communicating powerful and authentic emotions through music...

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Ignite Summer Camp

9 - 12 Grade | July 8 - 18

Ignite is a two-week program designed for high school-aged singers who want to take their musical talents to the next level...

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Spark Summer Camp

6 – 8 Grade | August 5 - 15

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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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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MOTOWN BY THE BOOK PRESENTS BUNNY DEBARGE

SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2025

MOTOWN MUSEUM – HITSVILLE NEXT

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Summer Weekend Series Calendar of Events

Rocket Plaza at Motown Museum

Events are Free and Open to the Public

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Private Events

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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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Museum Hours

  • Monday: Closed
  • Tuesday: 10am-6pm
  • Wednesday: 10am-6pm
  • Thursday: 10am-6pm
  • Friday: 10am-6pm
  • Saturday: 10am-8pm
  • Sunday: 10am-6pm
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MOTOWN MUSEUM PAUSES TOUR OPERATIONS AS FINAL EXPANSION CONSTRUCTION PHASE BEGINS, STARTING OCT. 1, 2025. ALL OTHER REGULAR PROGRAMMING AND RETAIL WILL CONTINUE.

Events

From memorable galas and concert performances, to community celebrations and educational programs, we host a range of special events throughout the year. With an expanded facility, new programs, and new resources, this expanding slate of musical and cultural highlights celebrates and engages a diverse community of music and history fans — whether around the corner or across the globe.

Smokey Robinson Legacy Tour Sweepstakes

Las Vegas, NV: April 4 – April 6, 2025
Detroit, MI: May 3 – May 4, 2025

Entries are now closed! Thanks for your interest in the Smokey Robinson Legacy Tour at The Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas.

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CELEBRATE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY

January 20, 2025 • 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 

Motown Museum

Tickets Available at Box Office and Online

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Carols & Cocoa

December 21, 2024 • 6 - 9p.m.

Motown Museum

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Motown MIC: The Spoken Word Competition Grand Finale

September 20, 2024

The Cube, Detroit

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AMPLIFY: The Sound of Detroit Grand Finale

March 16, 2024

Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

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