Current Exhibitions

Join us as we celebrate a decade of preserving and amplifying Black Detroit’s history in this 10th Anniversary Exhibit that highlights the journey of Black Bottom Archives through zines, podcasts, photos, and interactive displays. Learn how the organization went from Pedal to Porch to the Black Bottom Street View exhibit and explore how BBA has grown as a hub for community memory and advocacy. Celebrate the past, engage with the present, and imagine the future!

Joseph Parent, Detroit’s first recognized brewer, arrived in 1706, just five years after the new French trading post was established. Generations of English, Irish, Belgian, Polish, German and Detroit-born brewers followed, shaping a local scene that thrives to this day. Learn more about the city’s beer barons, neighborhood breweries and beer-drinking customs in Detroit’s Brewing Heritage.

In addition to local brewing legends like Stroh’s, Altes and Goebel, the exhibit explores the smaller breweries that served as neighborhood gathering places and the brewers who played an outsized part in the city’s cultural and political scene.