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Our purpose is to inspire people to learn from these traditions to help shape a better future.</p> </div> </div> </div> <section id="history-mission-our-founding-history" class="bands dark" data-interchange="[/images/default-source/default-album/historyandmission_fullwidthlandingbackground_ourfoundinghistory.jpg?sfvrsn=7e412101_0, (default)]"> <div class="row no-padding"> <div class="column text-center small-12"> <h1><span class="light">Our Founding</span> History</h1> <div class="column small-12 medium-6 medium-offset-3"> <p>The origins of our collection, our campus, and our educational programs.</p> </div> </div> <div class="column"> <ul class="feature-slats"> <li> <a href="/history-and-mission/henry-ford-collector/"> <img src="/images/default-source/default-album/historyandmission_featureslat_henryfordcollector.jpg?sfvrsn=b77e2101_0" /> <span class="info"> <em></em> <strong>Henry Ford: Collector </strong> <span>By the late 1920s, Henry Ford had become the primary collector of Americana in the world.</span> </span> </a> </li> <li> <a href="/history-and-mission/creating-our-campus/"> <img src="/images/default-source/default-album/historyandmission_featureslat_creatingourcampus.jpg?sfvrsn=9a782101_0" /> <span class="info"> <em></em> <strong>Creating Our Campus</strong> <span>Henry Ford built two separate facilities linked by his theories of education: an indoor museum to tell the story of America’s technological progress and an outdoor village to show how these types of objects were made and used. </span> </span> </a> </li> <li> <a href="/history-and-mission/educational-vision/"> <img src="/images/default-source/default-album/historyandmission_featureslat_auniqueeducationalvision.jpg?sfvrsn=ff782101_0" /> <span class="info"> <em></em> <strong>A Unique Educational Vision</strong> <span>In Henry Ford’s Edison Institute schools, students learned not only from books, but also from objects and hands-on experiences. </span> </span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> 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