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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 museum houses KSU's permanent art collection of Kansas and regional artists, as well as hosting special and traveling exhibitions. The museum's collection is accessible on-line and includes works by important Kansas artists John Steuart Curry, Patricia Duncan, Birger Sandzén, William Dickerson, and Gordon Parks. In 2003, the museum ...
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 ...
Mushroom Rock State Park: Ellsworth: 5 acres (2.0 ha) 488 m (1,601 ft) 1965 Perry State Park: Jefferson: 971 ft (296 m) 1968 Pomona State Park: Osage: 490 acres (198.3 ha) 1,024 ft ( 312 m) 1963 Prairie Dog State Park: Norton: 1,150 acres (465 ha) 2,352 ft (717 m) 1964 Originally named Norton Park Prairie Spirit Trail State Park: Sand Hills ...
The museum is centered around the restored Muriel-- a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra (identical to the plane Earhart flew on her final flight). The museum also features 14 interactive exhibits, including a virtual reality experience. [12] [13] A bronze statue of Amelia Earhart is also on display outside the museum. [14]
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
The Cosmosphere grew from a planetarium established on the Kansas State Fairgrounds in 1962. The 105,000-square-foot (9,800 m 2) facility houses the largest collection of Russian space artifacts outside of Moscow, and a collection of US space artifacts second only to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [1] [2]
The museum's collection includes 6 locomotives and several pieces of rolling stock used on freight and passenger trains. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 steam locomotive #3768. [2] Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway EMD SDFP45 diesel locomotive. [3]