Cranbrook Educational Community

The Cranbrook Educational Community, a National Historic Landmark, in the U.S. state of Michigan was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. Cranbrook campus is in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills consisting of Cranbrook Kingswood School, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook House and Gardens, and Christ Church Cranbrook. The sprawling, 319-acre (129 hectares) campus began as a 174-acre (70 ha) farm, purchased in 1904. The organization takes its name from Cranbrook, England, the birthplace of the founder's father.

Cranbrook is renowned for its architecture in the Arts and Crafts Movement style. The chief architects were Albert Kahn and Eliel Saarinen. Renowned sculptors Carl Milles and Marshall Fredericks also spent many years in residence at Cranbrook.




Cranbrook Academy of Art
The Cranbrook Academy of Art, located in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, MI, is a prominent graduate school of architecture, art and design. Founded in 1932 by philanthropist George Gough Booth and wife Ellen Scripps Booth, it is part of the larger Cranbrook Educational Community, also founded by the couple.

The Cranbrook Academy of Art was originally designed and headed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, who migrated design practices and theories from the arts and crafts movement through the international style. The school continues to be known for its apprenticeship method of teaching, in which a small group of students, usually only 10 to 20 per class (141 students total), study under a single artist-in-residence for the duration of their curriculum.




Cranbrook Art Museum
The Cranbrook Art Museum is located at the heart of the Cranbrook Educational Community, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan outside of Detroit. It is a museum of contemporary art. Completed in 1942 under the direction of world renowned architect Eliel Saarinen, the museum is housed in the same building as the Cranbrook Academy of Art.




Cranbrook Institute of Science
The Cranbrook Institute of Science is located in the Cranbrook Educational Community, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It is a popular tourist attraction in the Detroit metropolitan area. It includes a permanent collection of scientific artifacts and also displays annual temporary exhibits. It also features a planetarium and a powerful telescope which visitors may peer through on selected nights.

The museum grounds feature a life-sized statue of a stegosaurus, as well as a koi pond.

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