The new museum, which is being developed by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, is expected to open next fall.
Roughly a third of Dearborn's 100,000 or so residents are of Arab heritage.
The new museum will be centered in what is now a vacant 36,000-sf storefront on Michigan Avenue, near Schaefer, across the street from the Dearborn City Hall.
Plans call for a three-story museum, with a library and a tiled entryway with a fountain. The museum will feature three thematic galleries, with a room devoted to immigration, the journey to America and the daily life of Arab-Americans.
Of nearly 4 million Arabs living in the United States, about 220,000 have settled in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs.
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