Museums

Museums play a crucial role in preserving local culture. With careful documentation and artifact preservation, a culture can be recorded and remembered regardless of its future. It can also be shared and understood by those from different cultural backgrounds.

“The collections within a museum are a significant resource to the community. They allow people to experience things from all over the world without ever leaving town,” said Jill Krieg-Accrocco, Curator of Anthropology and Exhibitions with the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.

To see it with your own eyes will create a lifetime memory that studying and memorizing information will not. The experiences someone may have in a museum can shape who they are and who they will be.

Printable list

Not all museums are included in the right column - here is a printable list as compiled by Wikipedia.

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    Arabia Steamboat Museum The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market. The partners of River Salvage Inc., who excavated the Arabia and opened the museum, claim to have the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.

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    National WWI Museum The National World War I Museum and Memorial of the United States is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Opened to the public as the Liberty Memorial museum in 1926, it was designated in 2004 by the United States Congress as America's official museum dedicated to World War I. The Museum and Memorial are managed by a non-profit organization in cooperation with the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners.

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    Shoal Creek Living History Museum 19th-century Missouri life, over eighteen buildings and log cabins dated from the 1800s relocated from surrounding counties to create a small village setting, on 80 areas in Hodge Park

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    Trailside Center The Trailside Center is a tourist center, museum, and community facility in Kansas City, Missouri. The center is located at the intersection of Holmes Road and East 99th Street. Items on display include exhibits of Civil War items related to the Battle of Westport as well as items related to the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails.[1] The center is staffed by volunteers.[2] The center also serves as a meeting place for public forums, discussions, and other events.[3][4]

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    Battle of Westport The Battle of Westport Visitor Center and Museum in the historic Westport District of Kansas City at the 1855 Harris House tells the story of the stirring events of the Battle of Westport, the largest Civil War battle fought west of the Mississippi.