History

Data@Museums

Plymouth Museum

To celebrate Plymouth Museum benefactor Maragaret Dunning's 100th birthday,
the museum used 1910 Census data to illustrate the city in which she was born.

Photo courtesy of the Chrysler Museum of Art.

The Plymouth Museum in Plymouth, MI, uses census data as part of many of their exhibits and events. For example, to celebrate the 100th birthday of their major benefactor, Margaret Dunning (1910–2015), they used the 1910 Census in the exhibit, “Margaret’s 1910." The exhibit used 1910 Census data to illustrate the occupations and population of the city that Dunning cared so much about.

To learn more about Margaret Dunning and Plymouth, MI, visit the Plymouth Museum.