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 – Riverfest Memorabilia

Annually, during the city’s Wichita River Festival, the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum features all of the past Wichita Riverfest buttons and other festival memorabilia on…

Victorian Cottage – Mourning

A featured exhibit of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum includes “A Wichita Cottage.” This exhibit authentically recreates a typical middle-class Wichita home of the late…

Service Beyond Barriers: Bravery & Sacrifice in the Face of Adversity – An Exhibit by WSU Museum Studies Students

Students from the Museum Exhibition class at Wichita State University, under the direction of Holmes Museum of Anthropology Director and Instructor, Rachelle Meinecke, have created…

Victorian Cottage – Summer

A featured exhibit of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum includes “A Wichita Cottage.” This exhibit authentically recreates a typical middle-class Wichita home of the late…

Windows on Collection – Special 4th of Julys

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…

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-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
204 S. Main St.
Wichita, Kansas 67202
316.265.9314

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