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Kids 'N' Stuff
P.O. Box 718
301 S. Superior
Albion, MI 49224
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517-629-8023
FX 517-629-8024
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OUR PHILOSPOPHY
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Our Statement of Purpose:
Kids ’N Stuff: An Interactive
Experience for Kids will enhance the educational opportunities for
children and their families by providing a creative and enriching
experience through interactive exhibits and programs in the arts,
humanities, sciences and technology.
Through its programs and governance the museum will reflect the region’s
rich ethnic, cultural and economic history. |
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Kids
'N' Stuff: An Interactive Experience for Kids, unlike other area museums,
will focus on youth ages 10 months to 12 years old. |
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Collaboration – To
work with local educators, area youth and youth service organizations to
design programs and exhibits that will add another dimension to the topics
offered by the local schools. Through these programs, Kids 'N' Stuff will
reinforce the education that the youth are receiving in the schools. |
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Raising awareness- To
design Programs that raise awareness of the world around us, including our
unique cultural heritage and the environment in which we live. |
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Life Skills development-
To develop programs to teach life skills, to expose students to new
perspectives and help them learn to compromise. |
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Minds-on, Hands-on -
To develop programming that will emphasize using the mind and the hands to
explore and discover. |
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Interconnectivity -
To demonstrate the relationships between the arts, humanities, sciences and
technology. |
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Exhibits - To achieve distinction as an
attractive destination for both tourists and children of the region, KNS has
selected four guiding principles in the design of exhibits:
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The focus of KNS will be to serve children aged 10 months to twelve years.
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Interactive exhibits will be designed to reflect the history,
geography economy, etc… of the South Central Lower Michigan region.
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Additional exhibits and activities will be designed that
reflect the rich diversity of the people in the South Central Lower Michigan
Region.
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KNS will collaborate with area schools to develop exhibits and
programming that will enrich the K-5 curriculum.
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 The establishment of Kids ‘N Stuff began in April
of 2000, when Parker “Tom” Feldpausch agreed to donate an 10,000+ sq ft
building to Albion College, with the intent that a children’s museum be
established. Albion College is an independent, coeducational,
residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts. Founded in
1835, Albion College was fully authorized by the State legislature to
confer a full four-year college degree upon both men and women in 1861.
Soon after it was incorporated and an independent board of directors was
formed, KNS decided that in order to achieve the identity and status
they wished to hold, they would need to seek 501 (c)(3) status, and
become an independent non-profit organization. Fortunately, the
non-profit status of Albion College has allowed KNS to proceed with
their Capital Campaign effort. |
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Kids 'N' Stuff: An Interactive Experience for Kids (KNS) was
incorporated as a Michigan Nonprofit Organization on December 12, 2000.
On
April 11, 2001
KNS received federal status as a 501 (c) (3) Nonprofit Corporation. The
primary purpose of the corporation is to establish and run the Kids 'N'
Stuff: An Interactive Experience for Kids children’s museum.
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