Pickles, Perfume and a Prefab House: The Arabia’s Impossible Cargo
The most unbelievable thing about the Arabia Steamboat Museum is that everything you see was once for sale. When the steamboat sank in 1856, she...
Category : Museums
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: Where Baseball’s Untold Story Takes the Field
In the historic 18th & Vine district stands a museum every baseball fan should visit once in their life: the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, dedicated...
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: Big, Bold and Always Free
Kansas City’s contemporary art home hides in plain sight near the Nelson-Atkins: the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri’s largest contemporary museum — and, in...
The Arabia Steamboat Museum: A Time Capsule Raised From the Missouri River
In 1856, the side-wheel steamboat Arabia hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank with 200 tons of frontier supplies. In 1988, Kansas City...
The American Jazz Museum: Standing Where Charlie Parker Learned to Fly
In the same 18th & Vine building as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the American Jazz Museum celebrates the sound Kansas City gave the world...
Buck O’Neil and the Monarchs: Kansas City’s Baseball Royalty
Before Kansas City had the Royals, it had royalty of another kind: the Kansas City Monarchs, the crown jewel of the Negro Leagues, and their...
A Field of Poppies: The Gallery Moments That Stay With You at the WWI Museum
Ask anyone who has visited the National WWI Museum and Memorial what they remember most, and one image returns again and again: the field of...
Liberty’s Beacon: The WWI Museum Lights Up Its Centennial Nights
This fall, the National WWI Museum and Memorial is celebrating its 100th anniversary in the most visible way possible: by turning itself into a beacon....
Inside the National WWI Museum: America’s Front Door to the Great War
The United States’ official World War I museum sits in Kansas City, and it is extraordinary. Beneath the Liberty Memorial Tower, the National WWI Museum...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Kansas City’s Free Treasure Chest of 5,000 Years of Art
Some of the best news in Kansas City is completely free: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens its doors to everyone at no charge, inviting...
