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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.
Cafe in the museum Shuttlecock. The museum was built on the grounds of Oak Hall, the home of Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson (1841–1915). [4] When he died in 1915, his will provided that upon the deaths of his wife and daughter, the proceeds of his entire estate would go to purchasing artwork for public enjoyment.
The interior of SubTropolis. SubTropolis is a business complex located inside of a 55,000,000-square-foot (5,100,000 m 2), 1,260-acre (5.1 km 2) mine in the bluffs north of the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Map of Kansas City, Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri outside downtown.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States, outside downtown.
The building and the addition on the north built the next year are important examples of the work of Kansas City architect Louis S. Curtiss. Born in Canada, Curtiss was a notable architect in Kansas City. Construction was supervised by local stone contractor Henry H. Johnson. The building was donated to the Kansas City Art Institute in 1968.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1994 in Kansas City, Missouri. With a $5 million annual budget and approximately 75,000 visitors each year, it is Missouri's first and largest contemporary museum. [1]
Mack Barnabas Nelson was born in Arkansas in 1872. He came to Kansas City in 1894, where he worked for the Long-Bell Lumber Company.At the time of construction, Nelson was vice president of the lumber company, but he later came to the top position in the company after Long suffered financial reverses early in the Great Depression.
One legend involves the ghost of Harriet Evelyn Barse (1875-1922). Barse was an organ student at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Uriah and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Weaver Epperson (1855-1939), brought Barse with them when they moved into the house. They referred to her as their adopted daughter, even though no legal adoption occurred.