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List of museums in Kansas City, Missouri; Independence, Missouri, in the KC metro, includes the Truman Library. Overland Park, Kansas, in the KC metro, includes the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens and Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead. Kansas City, Kansas, includes Children's Mercy Park and the Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch.
Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Kansas City, Missouri" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. The city lies within Jackson, Clay, Platte counties, and a small portion in Cass County. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035.
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.
City workhouse castle (Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle [3]) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri.The castle was constructed by contractors in 1897 for US$25,700 (equivalent to $941,000 in 2023) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street.
Swope Park is a city park in Kansas City, Missouri. At 1,805 acres (7.30 km 2), it is the 51st-largest municipal park in the United States, and the largest park in Kansas City. [1] It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896.
Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri.. In the early 1800s, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.
The farmers' market features local vendors every weekend. The Arabia Steamboat Museum at 400 Grand Blvd. is a tourist attraction displaying thousands of artifacts from a steamboat and its cargo that had sunk nearby in 1856 and was recovered in 1987–88. KC Commercial Realty Group manages the market on behalf of the City of Kansas City.