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This list of museums in Kansas City, Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad Co. was formed to be a short line passenger railroad and demonstration museum as a project of Smoky Hill. [3] As of July 2013, the museum roster included 2 static steam locomotives, 2 diesel locomotives, 6 freight cars, 3 cabooses, 6 special service (maintenance of way) cars, and 3 passenger cars ...
The Kansas City Terminal Railway Company Roundhouse Historic District, in Kansas City, Missouri, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The listing included four contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing sites. [1] It is a 22 acres (8.9 ha) complex. [2]
This list of museums in Kansas is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The front cover of the Kansas City Star newspaper, engraved on a copper plate, is displayed on stage during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at the National WWI Museum and ...
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
Model train display at the Old Depot Museum in Ottawa, Kansas. One room of the museum is dedicated to an HO scale model train, with both steam and diesel trains. [11] [12] The model train shows the railroad and Franklin County as it looked in the 1950s, and includes structures that exist around Franklin County. [9] [13]