In 2024, Ann Arbor celebrated its bicentennial year, the 200th anniversary of its founding.  To mark this occasion, the Ann Arbor District Library undertook a project called Ann Arbor 200.  

Over the course of 2024, there were 200 digital content releases that explore topics from Ann Arbor's history.  Some were created by Library staff, some were commissioned from artists and filmmakers and writers around the community, and some were created through partnerships with organizations throughout the city. Some are informative, some are whimsical, some are experimental. The ways we explored these topics—articles, documentaries, podcasts, illustrations, music recordings, animations—was as varied as the topics we explored.  

Ann Arbor 200 could never be a complete portrait of the city, but we attempted to tell some of the stories and explore some of the histories that are meaningful to us, the people who here at Ann Arbor's 200th. The goal was to create something about who we were for our own time and something about who we are for those in the future looking back.