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1878 Harvey House Museum
Icon The first of the Fred Harvey Company's hotels, established in 1878, now a Museum and Restaurant. (In Topeka, Mr. Harvey operated a restaurant for the Santa Fe Railway.)
 

1925 Caboose Museum
Icon 1925 Caboose Museum
 

Ag Heritage Park
Ag Heritage Park offers the ultimate collection of memorabilia from the years past in Agriculture.
 

All Veterans Memorial
Icon America's first All Veteran's Memorial consisting of military displays, war memorials and Walk of Honor. Features Sherman tank, Huey helicopter.
 

Barnes State Bank Museum
Icon This restored 1911 Bank was robbed twice at gunpoint and became insolvent in 1924. A restoration brought it back to its' formal glory in 2007. Now serving as a small community museum with rotating displays.
 

Blast from the Past Museum
Icon Founded in 1947, The Blast from the Past Museum has been dedicated to the restoration and preservation of numerous antiquests from the early 1900's for over half a century. Items such as Band organs, Juke Boxes, Arcade Machines, Carousel Horses, Slot Machines, Pinball Games and Antique Music Boxes are just some of the wonders that can be found here.
 

Blue Rapids Historical Society & Museum
Icon Displays honoring and remembering the people and businesses of Blue Rapids.
 

Burns Community Museum
Icon The Burns Community Museum is housed in the former Burns Union School built in 1904 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
 

Butler County History Center & Kansas Oil Museum
Icon This outstanding museum presents the fascinating history which makes El Dorado unique. The permanent exhibit, "Glory of the Hills", depicts the Flint Hills as a land of possibilities and should be the first stop for anyone touring The Hills. Historic photographs and artifacts explore the lives of early inhabitants, settlers and farmers and ranchers who established the county's agricultural identity and grazed their huge cattle herds on the rich bluestem grasses. Farming and ranching were essential to the economy, but it was oil that brought national attention to El Dorado. Located on ten acres, this modern museum offers the visitor the opportunity to walk the street of a 1920's oil boom town and view full-size oil field equipment of the early boom days in El Dorado. The museum hosts a lively schedule of special events throughout the year, an interesting gift shop of Kansas gifts and history books, and a 4,000 volume research and genealogy library. Hours: May 1 to Sept. 30 - Mon. - Sat. 9am - 5pm Oct. 1 - Apr. 30 - Tue - Fri. 9am - 5pm, Sat. Noon - 5pm
 

Chase County Historical Society Museum
Historical museum for Chase County featuring local historical artifacts, displays of the crash of the airplane carrying Knute Rockne.
 

Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum
Icon The Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum was founded in 1966 to honor those who participated in the Cherokee Strip Land Rush of September 16, 1893 as well as preserve the history of the area.
 

Clay County Museum
Icon The Clay County Museum is housed in the former Clay Center Hospital building constructed in 1925. The structure served as a nursing home before it became the location of the museum.
 

Clifton Historical Museum
Icon The Clifton Museum is located at the corner of Clifton and Railroad Streets in the building which was the Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot.
 

Coleman Factory Outlet and Museum
The one and only place to see over 2,000 current Coleman products at direct factory pricing.
 

Combat Air Museum
Dedicated to the preservation of the military aviation heritage of Kansas and the United States and to sharing this rich history with the public.
 

Dickinson County Historical Society Museum
Icon Exhibit of Dickinson County's history through a time line. Guided tour available upon advanced request. Located in the same facility as the Museum of Independent Telephony and the C. W. Parker Carry-Us-All
 

Doll Museum
Icon Over 1,000 dolls, toys, accessories, and Otoe-Missouria Indian collection accompanied with stories.
 

Eisenhower Presidential Libary & Museum
Icon The complex consists of five buildings located on 22 acres. They include the family home where the Eisenhowers lived from 1898 to 1946, museum, library, visitors center, and place of meditation (the burial site of President and Mrs. Eisenhower and their first-born son Doud Dwight).

 

Emmett Kelly Museum
Icon The Emmett Kelly Musueum houses memorabilia of the world famous Wearie Willie Emmett Kelly, who was born in Sedan in 1898.
 

Emporia Gazette & Museum
Icon This newspaper has remained a publication of the White Corporation for over 100 years after W. A. White purchased it in 1895. Today the Gazette is operated by the fourth generation of the White family.
 

Fort Riley Regimental Museum
Icon The museum displays exhibits of the division's history from 1917 to the present. Big Red One, Desert Storm, and aviation memorabilia. Note: Must have a picture ID upon entering the Fort.
 

Geary County Historical Society & Museums
Icon The museum served as a high school from 1904 to 1929. From 1930 until the late 1960s the building housed all the sixth grades in the city as a Departmental School. The administration offices were also located in the building.
 

Great Plains Transportation Museum
Discover a display of railroad transportation equipment and trackage.
 

Greyhound Hall of Fame
Icon Museum all about the world's fastest dog. Learn more about greyhounds (dog) at the world-famous Greyhound Hall of Fame, the Greyhound Capital of the World. See interesting displays of greyhounds from ancient times to the present.

One of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Customs Finalists.
 

Historic Courthouse
Icon Constructed in 1891-92 after a suspicious fire destroyed the previous courthouse.
 

Indian Pay Station and Museum
Icon Oldest 1857 stone structure in the county where Pottawatomie Indians received government payments. From 1847 to about 1857, St. Marys was the "Cape Canaveral" of western migration along this leg of the Oregon-California Trail. Once a person left St. Marys in those years - there was not another settlement until one reached Salt Lake, the California Gold Fields or the Willamette Valley in Oregon Territory, journeys of thousands of miles. The only intervening vestiges of "civilization" were two small sparsely manned army posts at Fort Kearney and Fort Laramie.
 

Johnston Geology Museum
Icon More than 50 geologic displays, predominantly from Kansas, internationally recognized Hamilton uarry fossil site, help visitors appreciate the physical history of the prairie landscape. Exhibits include fossils, minerals, Indian artifacts, and petrified tree stump.
 

Kansas Auto Racing Museum
Icon Highlights the proud history of motorsports in Kansas with exhibits, theater, racing, games, and more. The museum is located one-half mile south at Exit 286 off Interstate 70 in the middle of Kansas at the small town of Chapman. The 21-acre museum complex is the doorway into the local community. The museum is also the launch point for the Joe Engle Chapman Historic Trail Walk. The trail walk enables visitors to enjoy a combination nature walk and scenic walk that can extend for over 3.6 miles and includes visits to two historic sites on the National Registry.
 

Kansas Aviation Museum
Discover the aviation heritage of Kansas-memorabilia, displays, and vintage aircraft.
 

Kansas Firefighters Museum and Fallen Firefighters Memorial
This is a 1909 restored fire house that contains many vehicles and artifacts deplicting the Firefighting history in Kansas.
 

Kansas Museum of History
Vist award-winning exhibits on colorful characters and everyday folks from Kansas' past. You'll see a full-sized Cheyenne tipi, a fully stocked covered wagon ready for a trip on the Oregon Trail, a 1950s diner, and a locomotive made in 1880 for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.
 

Kauffman Museum
Icon The Kauffman Museum includes 1)a tallgrass prairie reconstruction with over 15 species of grasses and more than 100 wildflower species, 2) the award-winning permanent exhibit Of Land and People which tells the story of the coming of the Mennonites from Europe to the central plains in the 1870s and their encounters with the prairie environment and its people, and, 3) an historic farmstead with heritage flower and vegetable gardens around the 1875 Voth-Unruh-Fast House and the 1886 Ratzlaff Barn.
 

Kaw Mission State Historic Site and Museum
Icon Start of the Historic Tour of Council Grove. Mission school for state's namesake tribe, the Kaw or Kansas. Interpretation of the Kaw, Santa Fe Trail, and Council Grove. Exhibits feature the mission built in 1850 as a school for Kaw children (children of the Kansa Tribe). It was modernized in 1926 by the tenth child of the first missionary couple to include rare rosewood woodwork and crystal chandeliers. The Kaw Methodist Mission was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on 3-24-77.
 

Koester House Museum
Icon This 1876 house is filled with original artifacts and offers a glimpse into the life of a well-to-do German banking family in the 19th century.
 

Lyon County Historical Museum
Icon Area heritage museum with changing thematic exhibits and Kansas item gift shop.
 

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Icon Permanent art collection originated in 1928. This collection has grown to more than 5,000 works of art emphasizing Midwestern artists. Each year 7-8 different exhibitions are displayed offering an ambitious and diverse schedule of exhibitions and educational programs.
 

Mennonite Heritage Museum
Icon Eight building museum complex dedicated to the Alexanderwohl Mennonite immigrants who immigrated from Russia in 1874. Learn about the struggles of the first years. Visit the Immigrant House, a replica of the structures they lived in when they arrived. View photographs of the people and the items they brought with them from Russia. See the simplicity of the first homes when you visit the 1875 Krause House. Learn how the Mennonites from Russia introduced the Turkey Red Wheat to Kansas in the Wheat Palace. Explore the early 1900s in the restored Schroeder Barn and Friesen House. In the farmstead experience the Heritage Gardens. See the Wheat Bell, a replica of the Liberty Bell made from Turkey Red Wheat by local Mennonites in 1976.
 

Mennonite Settlement Museum
Icon Visitors experience the history of pioneer life on the prairies of western Marion County Kansas. Here in the early 1870s immigrant refugee Mennonites came from south Russia and central Poland.
 

Milford Museum
Showcases Dr. John R Brinkley "The Goat-Gland Doctor" and early Milford history.
 

Museum of Independent Telephony
Icon Enjoy a host of interactive exhibits as you travel through 140 years of telephone technology. Also tells the story of C. L. Brown whose independent Brown Telephone Company of Abilene grew to become the telecommunications giant known today as Sprint.
 

Oketo Community Museum
Icon The Oketo Community Museum consists of 3 buildings - an 1884 store, a restored bank building and a small stone jail.
 

Old Cowtown Museum
A unique open-air living history museum, re-creating Wichita and the southern plains from 1865-1880.
 

Onaga Historical Society Complex
Icon The Onaga Museum complex exhibits local historical items in its two main museum buildings and on its grounds you will see a Union Pacific caboose, a furnished log cabin and a one-room schoolhouse.
 

Oz Museum
Icon Features one of the largest privately owned collections of Oz memorabilia in the world. From the earliest books of Oz creator, L. Frank Baum to today's collectibles that can be purchased in Auntie Em's Gift Shop, visitors both young and young at heart will treasure a visit to the Oz Museum.
 

Peabody Museum Historical Complex
Icon The Complex includes the Museum, the Peabody Printing Museum, and Morgan House, and the Carnegie Library.
 

Pony Express Home Station No. 1
Icon 1859 stone barn used as a stable during the 18 months of the Pony Express.
 

Richard H. Schmidt Museum of Natural History
Icon Nationally recognized collection of mounted specimens of Kansas birds and mammals.
 

Riley County Historical Museum
Icon Explore Flint Hills history 1855 to present. Local history exhibits from pioneer days to the present. The adjacent Hartford house is a restored, prefabricated cabin brought by early settlers in 1855 on the steamboat Hartford.
 

Rock Creek Valley Historical Society Complex
Icon The Rock Creek Valley Historical Society Museum in Westmoreland houses many historical items from the early settlement of this area along with period furnishing in the old stone church and log cabin that make up the museum complex. Free Admission, contributions welcomed. Tuesday through Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm, or by appointment.
 

Roniger Memorial Museum
Museum featuring local native American artifacts.
 

Seelye Mansion & Patent Medicine Museum
Icon The Seelye Mansion is one of the finest homes in Kansas. A New York architect designed the new home in Georgian style for Dr. and Mrs. A.B. Seelye in 1904. It was built in 1905 at a cost of $55,000. The mansion contains the original furniture and Edison light fixtures. You will tour 25 rooms, including eleven bedrooms, ballroom, bowling alley, and kitchen areas. Special items of interest are the beautiful dining room, music room with gold French furniture and Steinway Grand piano, library, and the Tiffany-designed fireplace in the grand hall.

The Patent Medicine Museum contains many artifacts of the A.B. Seelye Medical Company. Founded in 1890, more than 100 products were sold over a 14-state area. Best known cure-alls included Wasa-Tusa, Fro-zona, and Ner-vena.

An important part of touring the Seelye Mansion is enjoying the beautiful yard and gardens that surround the historic home. The patio and fish pond have been restored using 1905 landscape drawings.
 

Starcke House Museum
Icon Showcases furnishings and artifacts reflecting various eras.
 

The Heritage Center of Dickinson County & Historical Society
Icon Museum depicts life on the Plains during the American pioneer movement and westward expansion periods. Exhibits include Indians, pioneers, railroad, agriculture, Victorian and cow town eras.
 

The Kansas African American Museum
A regional art/cultural museum reflective of the African American history & culture.
 

Transue Bros. Blacksmith & Wagon Shop
Icon Visit the Transue Bros. Blacksmith and Wagon Shop in Summerfield. The museum is Marshall County's newest entry on the National Register of Historic Places and the Kansas Register of Historic Places.
 

Tri-County Historical Museum
Icon The Tri-County Historical Museum represents Dickinson, Marion and Morris counties, located near the corner of the three, in Herrington.
 

US Cavalry Museum
Icon Fort Riley houses 2 of the finest military museums in the region built in 1855 as the original hospital.
 

Wabaunsee County Historical Museum
Icon Explore Wabaunsee County and Flint Hills history through the interpretative designs at the Wabaunsee County Historical Museum. An extensive collection offers a historical perspective on stone masonry, ranching, the underground railroad, early agriculture and much more!
 

Wamego Historical Complex
Icon Wamego's historical complex sits at the eastern edge of Wamego City Park and includes a museum, a restored one-room schoolhouse, a log cabin and jail. The museum addition which opened in the spring of 1997 is a replica of the original Wamego Town Hall.
 

Washington County Historical Museum & Genealogy Library
Icon Artifacts from prehistoric to modern times. Oregon Trail, Pony Express, Mormon Trail. Large rooms set-up in vinettes. 2 buildings. Genealogy library. Newspapers, obituaries, plats, family histories
 

Waterville Depot
Icon Historic Waterville Depot Museum
 

Wolf House Museum
Built in 1868, this limestone dwelling was used as a boarding house and private residence. The museum is furnished with 19th-century period pieces and special exhibits.
 

WWII History Center
Dedicated to the history of the World War II era.