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Visit award-winning exhibits on colorful characters and everyday folks from Kansas' past. You'll see a full-sized Cheyenne tipi, a fully stocked covered wagon ready for a trip on the Oregon Trail, a 1950s diner, and a locomotive made in 1880 for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.
The exhibits are very well-designed and informative, detailing the history of Kansas from pre-historic times and early settlement to the present day. Exhibits on the Civil War era are excellent, with great background on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas" and the war itself.
Kansas Museum of History, Topeka, Kansas. 5,013 likes · 155 talking about this · 10,088 were here. We're the state history museum for Kansas. Expected to reopen in 2025.
When the Museum closed its doors for major renovations in September 2022, it was a top Kansas tourist attraction, among the most-visited museums in the state, and the only one to tell the story of the state's history. It was voted one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas History by the citizens of Kansas.
In 1827, Colonel Henry Leavenworth founded Fort Leavenworth on the bluffs of the Missouri River. For the next several decades' Fort Leavenworth played an important role in keeping the peace among the various Indian tribes and the increasing number of settlers heading west.
The exhibits are very well-designed and informative, detailing the history of Kansas from pre-historic times and early settlement to the present day. Exhibits on the Civil War era are excellent, with great background on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas" and the war itself.
27 lip 2023 · Dive into Kansas history at the Kansas Museum of History. You can learn more about Native American tribal history, settling the frontier, Bleeding Kansas and the civil war, and the railroad. Some museum highlights include an 1880 steam engine, a Cheyenne style tipi, and a 1950s era diner replica.
