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Halfway between Baobab Fare and the Museum of Contemporary Art, at the Warren Avenue QLINE stop, sits the granddaddy of all Detroit’s museums — the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Spanning over 650,000 square feet and featuring 100 galleries, DIA is one of the largest and most significant art museums in the country.
The museum is most famous for Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry Murals,” a series of frescoes consisting of 27 panels depicting industry at Ford and Detroit. Controversial when completed in 1933, the murals have since been designated a National Historic Landmark in 2014 and were considered by Rivera to have been his most successful work.
Other highlights include William Randolph Hearst’s armor collection and a massive selection of American art. Both Jaime Junior and Emily Obert praised DIA’s accessibility.
“They have a grand staircase, because that’s what buildings had back then, but the main entrance has been reoriented to a level entrance from the south side of the building,” Obert says of the Neoclassical DIA, opened in 1927.
“There also is
free accessible parking close to that entrance off of Farnsworth Street.
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