Last updated: 3/11/2011
175 Limit Street
Battle Creek, MI 49037
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Sara Ann Briggs
phone: 269-965-5117
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Kingman Museum is Southwestern Michigan?s only natural history museum featuring a Digistar 4 HD full Dome planetarium. It features exhibitions on Michigan habitats, mammals, birds, insects, health, geology, paleontology, ocean life, and more!
Kingman Museum's mission is to provide lifelong learning opportunities in natural history, the universe, and world cultures for all ages for all time.
Battle Creek Public Schools is probably the first school district in the nation to own and operate a museum. Collecting began during the Civil War and when Battle Creek Central High School was built, it incorporated a "museum room" to house its collections. In 1934, they had outgrown the space and Edward Brigham Sr. founded the "Kingman Memorial Museum of Natural History" with a generous donation from the widow of Michigan Senator Kingman. Fast forward to the 1990s and BCPS could no longer afford to keep the doors open and ceased funding. After much wrangling and an extended court battle, the Kingman Museum Initiative was successful in establishing a not-for-profit organization and took over the facility and reopened the doors as Kingman Museum in February 2003. We are an exhibition and education facility and seek to educate families of all ages.
Kingman Museum's collections include animal mounted specimens, geology, archaeology, anthropology, and paleontology.
We provide exhibitions, gallery tours, school programs, after school programs, planetarium shows, summer programs, spring and winter break programs, programs geared to special groups such as boy scouts, girl scouts, etc.
Museum has four free days throughout the year. February Free For All, February 4, 2011, Calhoun County Hospitality Day, May 14, Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day, September 24, and Making a Difference at Spooky Science Saturday, October 22.
On the first Tuesday of each month (October - June) Kingman Museum offers a free lecture to the public. All lectures are held in the Community Planetarium and begin at 6 p.m.
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