With the success of the Model T and the assembly line,
Henry Ford was in the business of making history and
mobilizing the 20th century. By the time he opened his
museum in 1929, Ford had amassed tens of thousands of
seemingly ordinary objects to document the genius of
ordinary people. Rows of cast iron stoves, an endless
parade of planes, trains, automobiles, tractors, cotton
pickers. George Washington¹s cot, Thomas Edison¹s Menlo
Park ³invention factory,² an entire Americana ³village²
all designed to represent innovation, imagination,
ingenuity made in America.
