The Henry Ford Museum sits at 20900 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI 48124, and as of October 2026 its listed hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Greenfield Village, the outdoor part of the same campus, is open only Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. That makes Friday and Saturday the two days when the museum, the village and the Rouge Factory Tour are all running.
Are the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village the same place?
No, but they share a campus and a name. The museum is an indoor exhibit hall of about 523,000 square feet, roughly 400 feet deep behind an 800-foot facade. Greenfield Village is outdoors: 240 acres, of which about 90 are developed, with the remainder forest, river and pasture.
Both belong to The Henry Ford, which began as the Edison Institute. It was dedicated on October 21, 1929, to Thomas Edison by President Herbert Hoover, on the 50th anniversary of the incandescent bulb. The museum and village opened to the public in June 1933.
Two other pieces sit apart from those. The Ford Rouge Factory Tour takes you through a plant that still operates, on its own schedule, with buses departing from the museum. The Benson Ford Research Center, also on campus, keeps the archives, photographs and Ford Motor Archives. Across the whole institution, the holdings come to 26 million artifacts, and over 100,000 of them have been digitized.
Hours by venue
Each venue keeps its own calendar, and the October 2026 listings look like this:
| Venue | Open days | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Ford Museum | Every day | 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Greenfield Village | Fri, Sat, Sun (closed Mon to Thu) | 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Ford Rouge Factory Tour | Mon to Sat (closed Sunday) | 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Giant Screen theater | Sun, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat (closed Mon, Tue) | 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
The village shuts two hours before the museum, and from Monday through Thursday it doesn’t open at all. A Tuesday built around Greenfield Village simply doesn’t work.
For holiday or special-day hours, the main line is 313-982-6001 (Mon to Fri 9 to 5, Sat 9 to 3, Sun 9 to 1).
How to plan one day on the campus
Pick Friday or Saturday if you want the museum and the village open together. Sunday works for those two as well, but the Rouge tour is closed that day, and it’s best kept for another day in any case.
The village is the part that can’t slide to the afternoon, so be there at 9:30 a.m. Its buildings and rides are outdoors, and it closes at 3 p.m. Do the rides first: a Model T, a 1931 Model AA bus and a horse-drawn omnibus, plus the Weiser Railroad, which has 2 miles of standard-gauge track, four stations and steam locomotives. After that, wander the buildings until about 3 p.m. and cross to the museum, which leaves roughly two hours before its 5 p.m. close. Use those two hours on a short route (the next section has one) instead of trying to cover the hall.
The Rouge tour needs its own outing. Buses leave from the museum, and the plant runs on a separate schedule.
Monday to Thursday, the museum is the main plan, with the Rouge Factory Tour (Mon to Sat) as the only other option. The village is closed, and the Giant Screen is closed Monday and Tuesday. Since the museum is open daily, a museum-only day can run from 9:30 to close with no clock to beat.
How long does it take to go through the Henry Ford Museum?
The hall covers more than half a million square feet, so plan on several hours. One visitor review reports about 5.5 hours without seeing everything. Nobody finishes it in an hour.
Adding Greenfield Village shrinks the museum to the last two hours of the day. That’s a fast pass, not a visit. Anyone who wants both at a normal pace should split them across two days.
What to see in the museum
With two hours, three objects come first. The 1961 Lincoln Continental SS-100-X, the car President Kennedy was riding in, is one. The rocking chair from Ford’s Theatre, where Lincoln was shot, is another, and the bus where Rosa Parks was arrested is the third. All three are displayed close together.
Early machines make a second group: Ford’s 1896 Quadricycle, a replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer, and the locomotive “The President,” which brought Ford, Edison and Hoover to the 1929 dedication. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion house prototype is the odd one out, a round metal home that never went into production. The collection also includes a 2002 Toyota Prius, described as the first mass-produced hybrid.
The Giant Screen theater is on site as well. It was an IMAX until January 2016 and reopened that April as a 4K digital theater. Members see the film free. It’s closed Monday and Tuesday.
What to see in Greenfield Village
About 100 historic buildings were moved here, dating from the 17th century to the present. Costumed interpreters farm, sew and cook, and the craft shops (pottery, glassblowing, tin) demonstrate their work and sell what they make.
Several buildings come with a dated history. The Wright brothers’ house and bicycle shop came from Dayton in 1937. Henry Ford’s birthplace was moved in 1944. A replica of Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory began going up in 1928. A Cape Cod windmill built in 1633 was installed in 1936. The Firestone family farmhouse, donated in 1983, took more than two years to dismantle and rebuild, and it has been a working sheep farm since 1985. A 1913 Herschell-Spillman carousel is also on the grounds.
On a day with only a few hours, the Wright house, the Menlo Park laboratory and the Firestone farm are the three to pick. Pack a rain jacket or a warm layer, since the rides and many of the buildings are outdoors.
Tickets and admission
Prices for the museum, the village, the Rouge tour and the Giant Screen are posted on The Henry Ford’s ticket page, along with which of them can be bought together. The Hallowe’en evenings fall outside daytime hours, so check there whether that event needs its own ticket.
Getting there without a car
The John D. Dingell Transit Center sits next to the complex, with a short walk to a gate. Amtrak’s old Greenfield Village station was folded into the Dingell center in December 2014, so older directions that mention the village station are out of date.
What’s on this fall and winter
| Event | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village | Oct 22 to 25 remaining (46th season) | 6 to 9:30 p.m. |
| Celebrate Indigenous History | Oct 9 to Nov 30, 2026 | |
| Artemis Adventure with LEGO Bricks | Oct 18, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027 | 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Handmade: The Crafting of America | Mar 21, 2026 to Jan 18, 2027 |
Hallowe’en runs in the evening, outside the village’s daytime hours, and the final run is Oct 22 to 25.
The Old Car Festival took place September 12 and 13 this year and is held the first weekend after Labor Day. Motor Muster falls on Father’s Day weekend, Civil War Remembrance on Memorial Day weekend, and Salute to America around July 4 with the Detroit Symphony. Holiday Nights runs in the Christmas season.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to go through the Henry Ford Museum?
Plan on several hours; one visitor review reports about 5.5 hours without seeing everything. On a combined day with Greenfield Village, the village goes first because it closes at 3 p.m., and the museum gets whatever is left until 5 p.m.
Are Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum the same thing?
Not quite. They’re two venues under The Henry Ford, one indoors and one outdoors. In practice that changes two things: the museum is open daily while the village runs Friday to Sunday, and the village is a poor choice on a rainy day.
Is Greenfield Village worth visiting?
It suits anyone who wants to step inside the Wright brothers’ Dayton house and bicycle shop, Henry Ford’s birthplace or a 1633 Cape Cod windmill, all moved to the site. Model T rides and the steam railroad add to it. Skip it in bad weather.
Is the Henry Ford Museum open on Monday?
Yes. The museum is open every day, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Rouge Factory Tour also runs Monday. Greenfield Village is closed Monday through Thursday, and the Giant Screen theater is closed Monday and Tuesday, so a Monday visit means the museum plus the Rouge tour.
Is the Ford Rouge Factory Tour open on Sunday?
No. As of October 2026 it runs 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and is closed Sunday. Buses leave from the museum, and Friday or Saturday gives you the widest choice of other venues to pair it with.
