Kingman Museum

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Kingman Museum is a natural history museum and planetarium located at 175 Limit Street, on the grounds of Leila Arboretum, in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Its mission is to help people learn about and enjoy the natural world, the universe, and human cultures. The museum's collections include thousands of items, many of which are shown in permanent and temporary exhibits.

Kingman Museum is a natural history museum and planetarium located at 175 Limit Street, on the grounds of Leila Arboretum, in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Its mission is to help people learn about and enjoy the natural world, the universe, and human cultures.

The museum's collections include thousands of items, many of which are shown in permanent and temporary exhibits. Most of the collection, however, is stored away. In 2007, the museum received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to count and label every item in its collection, which was completed in August 2009.

Some of the museum's highlights include its paleontology and geology specimens, animal taxidermy displays, a preserved human embryo and fetus exhibit, and Native American artifacts.

The museum also has many rare items, including two specimens of the critically endangered imperial woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis). Only about 120 museum specimens of the bird are known to exist worldwide. Since no pictures or recordings of a living imperial woodpecker are known, these specimens are the only records bird scientists have to study and understand the species.

In 2008, Kingman Museum added a Digistar 3 fulldome projector system to its planetarium. It is one of only 61 such installations worldwide and the only one in southwest Michigan.

Kingman is a member museum of the Association of Science-Technology Centers and takes part in the membership passport program.

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