The Museum has been housed in Wichita’s original City Hall, a landmark building constructed in 1890 and is considered an exhibit in itself. A wide variety of the Museum’s exhibits showcase life in Wichita over the centuries, from the Wichita Indian tribe—whose name the town adopted— to the cowboys who drove their cattle here, to the dawn of aviation and the City’s role as the Air Capital of the World.

Special Exhibitions

Windows on Collection – Celebrating America

On July 4th, 1776, the men and women of the original Thirteen Colonies declared independence from British rule and set course to become a constitutional…

Wichita Guitar Heroes

Featuring electric guitars from the Museum’s permanent collection, exhibited for the exploration of the local guitarists who used them. These stories begin in 1932, when…

Being Modern

This exhibition follows (and is directly patterned after) the Museum’s previous exhibit, Art Deco on the Plains. It takes the timeline forward to explore modern…

The Gage Brewer Guitar – First Electric Guitar

Wichita’s unique connection to the history of the electric guitar is explored in the Museum’s feature exhibit, The Spirit of Wichita, which features guitars from…

Why History Museums Collect Art

Art is not only for Art Museums. If a picture is worth a thousand words, it stands to reason that art can tell us a…

What our visitors saying about their experience

At Home with History

The Museum has been housed in Wichita’s original City Hall for the last four decades. This landmark building was constructed in 1890 and is considered an exhibit in itself. A wide variety of the Museum’s exhibits showcase life in Wichita over the centuries, from the Wichita Indian tribe—whose name the town adopted— to the cowboys who drove their cattle here, to the dawn of aviation and the City’s role as the Air Capital of the World.

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Wichita, Kansas 67202
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