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Detroit Institute of Arts

One of the great American art museums, home of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals.

Part of Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals showing workers on an assembly line
Photo: SigmaIota, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rivera painted the murals in 1932 and 1933: twenty-seven panels of the Rouge plant, workers and machines, covering every wall of a courtyard. Even with an hour to spare, go straight to that room.