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2013: THE YEAR

OFTHE MUSEUM

y most accounts, the world is
not going to end in the year
ahead. It will, however, get a
little hotter, noisier, costlier and
more crowded. If only there were
a climate-controlled, quiet, free or
cheap place with just the right num-
ber of people to share the space
without encumbering each other's
movement or view. If only.
This year, for-
get those fad
graham-crack-
er diets and
resolutions to
not text while
you bathe. Put
museums on
the top of the
list of things
to do that you
actually intend
to do and then
actually do
them. The DIA
says, let your-
self go. I say, just go already.
Don't not go.
That's the funny thing about mu-
seums, if you don't go to them, you
will never get to them. My cousin
lived in Florence for five months and
never went to the Uffizi Gallery, a
cardinal sin he'd kept under wraps
until I spilled the Italian beans at
a big family dinner. I'm sure if he'd
been visiting for just a week, he
would have made sure to check out
The Birth of Venus, even if Botticelli
didn't ascend to Ninja Turtledom
the way his fellow artists there did.
Fuggetaboutitaly! In Detroit, we
have fantastico, stupendo cultural
resources at our disposal, which
makes them all too disposable. Here
are just a few familiar places, many
of which have new faces but haven't
had traces of your paces since that
field trip when you threw up in the
back of the bus:

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DIA. The single coolest experi-
ence I've ever had in Detroit was
going to the DIA at 1 a.m. when it
reopened Thanksgiving 2007. I don't
recommend going in the middle of
the night anymore; they have pretty
extensive security. But it stays open,
replete with live music, until 10 p.m.
on Fridays, which feels like 1 a.m. to
me these days. See invaluable art
work and your valuable tax dollars
at work with "free unlimited general
museum admission"for residents
of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb
Counties — even, it turns out, the
Philistines who voted against the
millage.

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Visitors to the Detroit Historical Museum
at the new Kid Rock Music Lab

Detroit Historical Museum. I
have taken three groups to the
Historical Museum since it reopened
over Thanksgiving — teens from Is-
rael, tweens from southwest Detroit,
toddlers from my house — all of
whom were touched by the magic
of Detroit's past and were touched
by the potential for its future. The
cobblestone of Olde Detroit down-
stairs never had luster to lose, and
the new exhibits are worth much
more than the price of admission,
which is $0.
Dossin Great Lakes Museum.
I'm man enough to admit that I've
never been, but I'll be on Belle Isle
when the Dossin reopens, reno-
vated, in the spring to "steer a long-
ship down the Detroit River"with
my heavy foot and pay my Lightfoot
respects at the bow anchor of the

Edmund Fitzgerald.

Michigan Science Center. The
rebooting of the Science Center
("New name, same great astronaut
ice cream!") is enough to make your
hair stand up without even touch-
ing that orb that makes your hair
stand up. Don't worry if you missed
"Bodies Human: Anatomy in Motion"
when it was there a few years ago.
The skinless, sinewy figures are
back, and they haven't aged a bit.
The Henry Ford. The best way to
experience The Henry Ford is at a
Jewish wedding.
None of which should rule out the
the Wright Museum, zoo, Mocad,
Cranbrook, Riverwalk or your
shhhhwonderful local library.
Remember how excited you were
when you got your library card in
the fourth grade and borrowed The
BFG? They are still waiting for you to
return it.
So much of our public conversa-
tion is about costs, liabilities, scarcity
— and understandably so — but we
are missing out almost daily (sorry,
Mondays) on enviable benefits, as-
sets and abundance.
So go already.

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