A Virtural Tour of Cranbrook in Kent, England

Learn more about the ancestral home of Cranbrook Educational Community co-founder George Gough Booth in Cranbrook, Kent, England.

Your host is Kevin Adkisson, Curator, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.

The Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research ("the Center") reveals the Cranbrook story and increases awareness of—and access to—the diverse art, architectural, landscape, design, and historical resources that comprise the Cranbrook Educational Community's legacy.

Founded in 2012, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research centralizes the Cranbrook story to increase awareness of—and access to—the diverse art, architectural, landscape, design, and historical resources that comprise the Cranbrook legacy. The Center—which includes Cranbrook Archives—serves a broad audience through its research initiatives and educational programs that include tours, lectures, and numerous behind-the-scenes opportunities.

Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It consists of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, and Cranbrook House and Gardens. The founders also built Christ Church Cranbrook.

Special thanks to Bobbi and Stephen Polk and Ryan Polk for sponsoring the trip to Kent in January, 2023.