Motown Museum goes dark until spring 2027 as its $75 million Hitsville expansion finishes

The most famous little house in American music has gone quiet.

Guided tours at Hitsville U.S.A. paused on January 20, 2026, and the Motown Museum says it will reopen its expanded campus in spring 2027. The pause gives construction crews time to finish Hitsville NEXT, the $75 million expansion taking shape around the original studio on West Grand Boulevard.

This is not a quick touch-up. The museum describes Hitsville NEXT as a multi-phase effort to build a world-class entertainment and education destination. The work will grow the campus to nearly 50,000 square feet. The expanded footprint sits on West Grand Boulevard, the same stretch where the Motown sound was made.

When the doors open again, visitors will find far more than the studio tour Detroiters grew up on. Plans call for interactive exhibits, a professional recording studio, an expanded store, a state-of-the-art performance theater, and a casual café serving light food and drinks.

The expansion is meant to be more than a museum. Hitsville NEXT is planned as an education center focused on talent cultivation, entrepreneurial training, and professional development, a place to grow the next generation of Detroit artists rather than only honor the last one.

Closing the doors for this long is a real ask of a beloved institution. The bet is that a bigger Hitsville, with a theater, a studio and a school built in, keeps the pilgrimage on West Grand Boulevard for another generation.

For now, the museum is closed to visitors.