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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 Museum of Kansas City is located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. In 1910, the site was built by lumber baron and civic leader Robert A. Long as his private family estate, with the four-story historic Beaux-Arts style mansion named Corinthian Hall. In 1940, the site was donated by Long's heirs to become a public museum. Seventy-five ...
The land, for which Wornall paid $5 per acre, stretched between present-day 59th and 67th streets, State Line, and Main Street in what is now Kansas City. Richard and Judith's second son, John B. Wornall, eventually inherited the property and built the present house for his second wife, Eliza S. Johnson Wornall.
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 ...
The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on Wednesday showed off an excavated century-old time capsule, revealing a cornucopia of early 20th-century relics, artifacts and documents.
Here’s how Shawnee Town ‘changed’ its history. Museum staff researched how each building should be built, ... No. 11: Unearth the history of Kansas City’s lost Black neighborhood ...
The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market . [ 1 ]
Aber, Sarajane Sandusky, "An Architectural History of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri". University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1918–1935. Millstein, Cydney, "Historic American Buildings Survey of Liberty Memorial". Architectural and Historical Research, April 1, 2000.