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Joe417
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Sep 02, 2019

Henry Ford Museum

We were thinking about visiting the Henry Ford Museum. Online didn't give me any practical info about visiting. It said 3.5 hour to visit, but it looked much bigger than that. Then it dawned on me that it may be multiple complexes.

Anyone have any practical do's and don't for visiting. We travel in a crew cab long bed, is it hard (as far as traffic) to get in and out. Looking at the online map it looked to have several parking areas.

Are the parking fees outrageous like those in and around Chicago?

Do they accommodate truck campers?

Any recommended camp grounds not too far from town but not in the city??

Thanks,

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    DrewE
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    Sep 02, 2019
    In my opinion, it takes a good day to see the museum reasonably thoroughly and a second good day to see Greenfield Village reasonably thoroughly. That doesn't mean reading every sign or necessarily seeing every last exhibit, but it should give enough time to cover most things at least briefly and linger at some things that are of greater interest. Needless to say, people differ in how rapidly they go through a museum, so that's at best a very rough guide. I assume the factory tour is more of a fixed length thing, though I haven't done that myself.

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