history slide test

Cranbrook Art Museum

In 1927 Booth formally presented to The Cranbrook Foundation a portion of his personal collection of art objects as well as books on art and architecture. These collections found a home in a building designed by George and Ellen’s son Henry Booth and his partner J. Robert F. Swanson, at the northwest corner of Lone Pine Road and Academy Way (now the Cranbrook Academy of Art Administration Building). The collection was an eclectic mix of art and artifacts spanning centuries, including stained glass, architectural fragments, sculpture, paintings, ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, metalwork, and known reproductions. In the winter of 1930 the Academy of Art published the first inventory of the Cranbrook Museum, and the collection opened for the use of Cranbrook’s art students as well as the enjoyment of the residents in the surrounding communities.