Detroit Museum of Art - Historic photos (exterior)
Detroit Museum of Art
The museum in an early 1889 photograph.
The museum in an 1895 photograph with the library extension already in place.
The museum in an undated photo.
Another view of the entrance around 1890.
A close-up of the museum's entrance around 1890.
A look at the Richardsonian details of the Museum of Art.
An early photograph from the Detroit Publishing Co.
An early photograph from the Detroit Publishing Co.
The Museum of Art
The expanded Museum of Art in 1906.
The museum stood at Jefferson and Hastings, which was replaced with the Chrysler Freeway.
The Museum of Art in 1888, the year it opened.
A colorized photo from the Detroit Publishing Co. archives
Today, "The Thinker" by Rodin greets visitors outside the Detroit Institute of Arts, but when it was given to the museum in 1922, it hung out in front of the Detroit Museum of Art first.
The Museum of Art can be seen on the right, missing its turrets, in this photo of East Jefferson Avenue from Jan. 5, 1959. To the far right is Dinan Hall, part of the University of Detroit.
The Museum of Art can be seen in the background, minus its turrets, in this photo from Jan. 5, 1959. To the left is Dowling Hall, which still stands. To the right is Dinan Hall, also part of the University of Detroit but torn down in 1963.
The museum in 1956, four years before it was razed to make way for the Chrysler Freeway.
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The museum in 1954, when it was used by the Public Welfare Department. Its turrets had been removed.
A crowd poses on the front steps of the Museum of Art.