Rozzelle Court and the Original 1933 Building: The Nelson-Atkins as It Was Meant to Be Seen
Walk into the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s original building and you step into 1933: a neoclassical temple of Kansas City limestone, built in the depths of the...
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From Thomas Cole to Thomas Hart Benton: The Nelson-Atkins’ American Collection
The Nelson-Atkins Museum’s American art collection reads like the nation’s biography — and it ends, fittingly, with Kansas City’s own Thomas Hart Benton, whose sweeping...
The American Royal Museum: Where Kansas City’s Cowboy Heart Beats On
Kansas City grew up as a cowtown, and the American Royal has celebrated that heritage since 1899 — its museum and exhibitions keep the story...
Caravaggio in Kansas City: A Rock-Star Painting of the Baroque
Caravaggio painted rule-breakers, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum owns one of his most magnetic: “Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness,” where the saint is no...
The Bloch Building: The Nelson-Atkins’ Glowing Lantern of Glass
By day it is a series of frosted-glass lenses rising politely from the Nelson-Atkins lawn. By night, the Bloch Building glows like a lantern —...
The Shuttlecocks: How Badminton Became Kansas City’s Favorite Sculpture
Only Kansas City could turn lawn ornaments into icons. Scattered across the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s sculpture park sit four giant badminton shuttlecocks — 18 feet tall,...
3,000 Years in One Visit: The Nelson-Atkins’ Asian Art Collection
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art holds one of the finest Asian art collections in America — so fine that the museum’s Chinese paintings gallery is...
Science City at Union Station: Kansas City’s Hands-On Science Playground
Inside Union Station’s vast halls, Science City has been sparking Kansas City curiosity for more than 25 years — a hands-on science center where touching...
The Truman Library: A President’s Life, Steps From Kansas City
Twenty minutes from downtown, in Independence, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum tells the story of the plain-spoken Missourian who went from a...
The Money Museum: Gold Bars, a Million in Shredded Bills and Free Admission
One of Kansas City’s most surprising museums doesn’t charge a cent: the Money Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, where money itself...
