The Historical Museum partnered with Exploration Place! January- May 2016 Featured at the Historical Museum was The Electric Guitar – Wichita’s Instrument. The electric guitar may have been born in Los Angeles, California, but it was launched from Wichita (that’s right – Wichita!) in October of 1932. The Historical Museum

April 2018 – April 2019 The art of Fred Wassall was the focus of an exhibit at the Historical Museum in the Lois Kay Walls Gallery.  Born in Birmingham, England in 1904, Wassall studied at the Brighton School of Art before immigrating to the United States in 1926, settling in

September 2018 – January 2019 Toys follow tools as the earliest known artifacts.  Essentially the world in miniature created for the amusement of children, toys are fun, yet they exert an influential force upon the present. In our time, the nature of “the toy” has not changed nearly as much as the

A traveling exhibition on view:  June 16 – August 11, 2018 Created by the Museum of the City of New York and adapted to tour for NEH on the Road by Mid-America Arts Alliance.  Visitors to the exhibition will experience a Riis presentation–immersive life-size photographs, as well as artifacts and personal documentation.

April 2016 – March 2017 Born in Wichita in 1890, Cecil McAlister found employment as a young man at the Western Sign Works Company, notably designing a flour milling exhibit at the 1915 International Wheat Show held at the Forum. After leaving the city in 1918 to study art in

What to Wear to the Kansas Sesquicentennial? — January 2011 To celebrate the Kansas 150th anniversary of Statehood, the Museum exhibited fashion through history highlighting the Museum’s remarkable costume collection. What we wear reflects where we have been and chronicles an amazing 150 year journey.