Whimsical Children’s Museum Custom Furniture
Kids ‘N’ Stuff Children’s Museum
Albion, MI, 2024
Whimsical Children’s Museum Custom Furniture
Like many small museums, Kids’N’Stuff Children’s Museum in Albion, Michigan, makes the most of every little thing they have. For decades, their tiny front desk — itself re-used from an ancient, unknown previous life — served as a place for staff to greet visitors, answer questions, prepare materials for programs while watching the door, prevent kids from wandering into staff-only areas, apply bandages to owies, and so on.
Flutter & Wow designed, built and installed a brand new, one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art colorful, whimsical front desk — actually four desks! It swiftly changed the game for how and where staff work and how visitors are engaged.
A new admissions desk includes space for all of the check-in technology. There is an adjacent work desk for staff, an additional counter for sharing snacks with visitors already in the museum, and a big, round, low counter for small programs and activities, as well as engaging young visitors.
But to top it all off, we included some “easter eggs” for people to discover, like kid-level windows through which visitors can spy on little scenes set up by staff. Our friend, Rhiannan Sibbald painted the front of the cabinet to look like a whimsical city.
Flutter & Wow also designed and built a big, pink, eye-catching home facade and suite of corresponding child-size kitchen furniture and appliances for the museum’s Healthy Home area.
To see more of our work at Kids ‘N’ Stuff, check out this bright and colorful River Ecosystem Wall Mural.