Kingman Museum of Natural History

Get ready for adventure.

Eddie Brigham and the Kingman Adventure Club is a brand-new experience from Kingman Museum of Natural History, created for curious kids who love to explore, discover, and learn.

Eddie is a young explorer with a big imagination and a strong sense of curiosity. Alongside his playful polar bear cub, Polaris, and a diverse group of friends, Eddie sets out on exciting expeditions to uncover the wonders of natural history, science, and culture.

From forests and fossils to stars and science experiments, every adventure is a chance to ask questions, solve mysteries, and learn something new about the world around us.

Learn Through Adventure

Each journey with the Kingman Adventure Club is built around real science and discovery. Kids will explore nature and wildlife, learn how the world works through hands-on discovery, experience ideas from science, history, and culture, and build curiosity, creativity, and confidence.

Whether tracking animals, studying rocks, or exploring the night sky, every adventure brings learning to life.

The adventure continues beyond the museum.

A companion app for Eddie Brigham and the Kingman Adventure Club is coming soon. Kids and families will be able to go on interactive expeditions, unlock new adventures and challenges, learn through games and exploration, and connect real-world experiences with digital discovery.

Join the Adventure

Eddie Brigham and the Kingman Adventure Club invites kids to become explorers, ask big questions, and discover the world in new ways.

Adventure is waiting.

As we move forward as Kingman Museum of Natural History, we are building something that is truly community powered. Your time, ideas, and energy are what will shape the future of this museum.

I’m excited to invite you to our Volunteer Kickoff Meeting.

We’ll be gathering at New Holland Brewing – Battle Creek Brewpub on Sunday, April 26 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Kingman will be providing snacks.

The meeting itself will run about 1 hour and 15 minutes, where we will:

Share the strategic vision for Kingman Museum of Natural History
Talk through how we are building a community powered organization

Outline immediate volunteer needs and opportunities to get involved

We’ll then leave about 45 minutes to connect, meet one another, and build the relationships that will carry this work forward.

This is more than a meeting. It is the start of a volunteer-driven movement to bring Kingman back as a vibrant, living museum for our community.

Please let me know if you can attend.

Thank you for being part of this.

Volunteer Driven – Community Powered

Explore the World’s Natural History — From Battle Creek

The Kingman Museum of Natural History is proud to offer direct access to the scientific collections of the Natural History Museum in London — one of the largest and most significant natural history repositories on Earth.

This interactive explorer gives you a window into more than 2.7 million catalogued specimens spanning five major collections: zoology, botany, mineralogy, palaeontology, and entomology. Search by organism, mineral, or fossil type. Filter by scientific collection or country of origin. Click any result to view full taxonomic detail — kingdom through genus, collection locality, year recorded, and where available, original specimen photography.

Whether you’re a student researching a class project, a teacher building a lesson around the fossil record, or simply curious about the living and ancient world, this tool connects you to the same scientific data used by researchers and curators worldwide.

Specimen data provided by the Natural History Museum, London via their open Data Portal.

“What’s Been Spotted Near Kingman Museum of Natural History” is a live digital exhibit feature powered by iNaturalist, one of the world’s leading citizen science platforms. Displayed on the museum’s website, the widget draws on a continuously updated database of verified wildlife observations recorded within 25 miles of Battle Creek, presenting visitors with a real-time window into the natural world surrounding the museum.
Each entry in the feed represents a research-grade observation — meaning it has been confirmed by the iNaturalist community of naturalists and scientists — and includes the species’ common and scientific name, the date and general location it was spotted, and a photograph taken in the field. Visitors can click any entry to view the full observation record on iNaturalist, connecting them directly to the broader citizen science community.
The feature refreshes automatically and requires no ongoing maintenance, drawing from iNaturalist’s open-access API at no cost to the museum. It reflects Kingman Museum’s commitment to connecting visitors with the living natural history of southwest Michigan — not just the specimens in our cases, but the species actively inhabiting our fields, forests, and waterways today.
By bridging the museum’s curated collections with real-time data from the field, the widget reinforces a core principle of natural history education: that science is not a finished record, but an ongoing conversation between humans and the natural world.