Since its founding in 1921, the Detroit Historical Society has been dedicated to ensuring that the history of our region is preserved so that current and future generations of metro Detroiters can better understand the people, places and events that helped shape our lives.

The DHS collection contains over 250,000 artifacts representing over 300 years of our region’s unique history. About 37,000 of these are available in our Digital Collections, including almost 50 maps.