Exhibit 3000 & Submerge

If Techno Boulevard is where the music was made, this is where it’s enshrined. Inside a former UAW union hall on East Grand Boulevard, the collective Underground Resistance — led by the famously press-shy Mike “Mad Mike” Banks — runs Submerge, a label and distributor, and Exhibit 3000, the world’s first museum dedicated to Detroit techno.

It’s a pilgrimage site: vintage synths and drum machines, the original record lathe that cut classic tracks, and gold and platinum records for anthems like “Good Life” and “Strings of Life,” all in custom cases. There’s a Metroplex Room, and a record store, Somewhere in Detroit, on site. Staff say visitors sometimes walk in and simply cry. For true believers, this small building is mecca — proof that music which circled the planet started, and stayed, right here.