On the second floor you’ll find: The DeVore Auditorium containing the Victorian Silver Plate exhibit, the Vintage Drugstore, A Child’s World exhibit, and numerous special exhibits.
Floor 2
Venue Exhibitions
- Thrift Finds in the Museum Collection
- Miniature Christmas Trees
- Thrift Style
- Small Expressions
- Thunderbolt Sirens
- Why We Collect What We Collect
Venue Events
- Teens Through Time – Final Day to Sign up for the ’25-’26 Program!
- Teacher’s Evening
- Victorian Album-ing: Early Scrapbooking Workshop
- Summer Program – Time For You To Get a Clock Tower
- Portrait Drawing Workshop
- C.A. Seward, 1884-1939: Printmaker, Artist, & Art Advocate
- Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: The Forgotten Journalist Zoey Anderson Morris, 1860-1914
- McIlwaine Quarterly Speaker Series – Travel Air Centennial
- Cursive Writing Workshop (Ages 13+)
- Cursive Writing Workshop (Ages 7-12)
- Membership Celebration Event
- Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
- Plucking From Obscurity: Music & Guitar History in Wichita
- Young Historian Awards
- McIlwaine Quarterly Speaker Series – AuthentiCity, An Artists View of Wichita’s Built Environment
- McIlwaine Quarterly Speaker Series – Story of a Wichita Neighborhood
- Teens Through Time Event
- McIlwaine Quarterly Speaker Series – Jazz in Wichita
- Friends Steering Committee Meeting
- Torchlight Tour
- Annual Membership Meeting
- Kansas Day Celebration
- Friends Steering Committee Meeting
- 42nd Annual Wreath Festival
- Spring Break Program – Picture Perfect
- Spring Break Program – Discovering Old City Hall
- Spring Break Program – Playing in the Past
- Senior Wednesday – Museum Docents Present Their Favorites
- Senior Wednesday – Women in Wichita Radio, 1922-1960
- Senior Wednesday – Homeownership, History, & Humor: The Register of Deeds Office Has It All!
- Senior Wednesday – Thanks! It’s Thrifted!
- Senior Wednesday – LGBTQ Wichita
- Senior Wednesday – The Wizard Behind Oz
- Senior Wednesday – Kansas Music History
- Senior Wednesday – American Portraiture
- Senior Wednesday – “Color Me Wichita” Documentary Screening
- Senior Wednesday – Kansas Day Celebration!
- 17th Annual Essay Contest Deadline– “Rights & Responsibilities”
- Winter Break Program – Christmas Trees
- Presentation: Rea Woodman (and Dedication into the WSU Plaza of Heroines)
- “Thrift Style” Program – Sewing Workshop
- “Thrift Style” Program – Sew A Charm
- Pop-Up Exhibit- “Big Idea: Rectifying ‘et al.’ History: The Women of Brown Project”
- “Thrift Style” & “Thrift Finds” Public Reception
- Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community
- Blue Moon at the Historical Museum
- Summer Workshop – Cursive Writing (Ages 13+)
- Summer Workshop – Cursive Writing (Ages 7-12)
- Summer Program – You’re Unbe-WEAVE-able
- Summer Program – Time For You To Get a Clock Tower
- Summer Program – Be Modern
- McIlwaine Speaker Series – “Six Wichita Stories of Aviation”
- McIlwaine Quarterly Speaker Series – “Researching Your Home and the People Who Lived There”
- McIlwaine Quarterly Speaker Series – “The Women of Brown”
- Annual Membership Meeting
- Spring Break Program – Celebrating Wichita
- Spring Break Program – Living Victorian
- Spring Break Program – Discovering Old City Hall
- Spring Break Program – The Keeper of the Plains
- Friends Steering Committee Meeting
- Volunteer Appreciation Lunch & Friends Meeting
- Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
- “Small Expressions” Exhibition
- “Small Expressions” Exhibition – Public Reception
- 41st Annual Wreath Festival
- Torchlight Tour (Members Only)
- Kansas Day Celebration