List of museums in Kansas
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List of museums in Kansas

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Name	Location	County	Region	Area of study	Summary

1950s All-Electric House	Shawnee	Johnson	Northeast	Historic house	House decorated and outfitted with 1950s electrical appliances and furnishings

Ag Heritage Park	Alta Vista	Wabaunsee	Topeka metro	Agriculture	website, information, exhibits about historic agricultural life, includes tractors, combines, threshing machines, tools, household items

Albany Museum	Sabetha	Nemaha	Northeast	Open air	Complex includes a schoolhouse, railroad museum, windmill, caboose and other buildings

Allen County Museum	Iola	Allen	Southeast	Local history	Operated by the Allen County Historical Society, also the Old Jail Museum

Allen-Lambe House	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Historic house	Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum	Atchison	Atchison	Northeast	Biographical	Turn of the 20th century birth home of aviator Amelia Earhart

Anderson County Museum	Garnett	Anderson	East-Central	Local history	website, operated by the Anderson County Historical Society, also 1888 Harris House open for visitors by appointment

Atchison County Historical Museum	Atchison	Atchison	Northeast	Local history	Exhibits on Lewis and Clark, Amelia Earhart, Jesse Stone, area railroad history, gun collection, located in a historic 1880 Santa Fe Freight fepot

Augusta Historical Museum	Augusta	Butler	South Central	Local history	website, local history museum and C. N. James Log Cabin, operated by the Augusta Historical Society

Bancroft Depot Museum	Bancroft	Nemaha	Northeast	Local history	Exhibits about Bancroft and the Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern Railroad

Barton County Historical Society Museum and Village	Great Bend	Barton	South Central	Open air	website

Basehor Historical Museum	Basehor	Leavenworth	Northeast	Local history	Operated by the Basehor Historical Society

Baxter Springs Heritage Center & Museum	Baxter Springs	Cherokee	Southeast	Local history	website, operated by the Baxter Springs Historical Society

Benson Museum	Howard	Elk	Southeast	Local history	information, open by appointment, old school building and barn with farm implements

Bethel College Luyken Fine Arts Center	Newton	Harvey	South Central	Art	website, includes the Robert W. Regier Gallery that features exhibits by local, regional, national and international artists, including Bethel alumni, in all types of media

Big Brutus	West Mineral	Cherokee	Southeast	Industry	160 ft (49 m). electric shovel used in coal mining and exhibits on local coal mining

Big Well Museum	Greensburg	Kiowa	South Central	History	Water well designed to provide water for the Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads

Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery	Lindsborg	McPherson	South Central	Art	Works by Swedish-born artist Birger Sandzén

Booth Family Hall of Athletics	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Sports	website, located in the University of Kansas' Allen Fieldhouse, history and tradition of Kansas Athletics

Boot Hill Museum	Dodge City	Ford	Southwest	Local history	Includes Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame, gunfighter show, weapons, saloon, cowboys, Victorian clothing

Brown County Agriculture Museum	Hiawatha	Brown	Northeast	Agriculture	website, includes windmills, antique cars, trucks and farm equipment, miniature farm model, operated by the Brown County Historical Society

Brown County Museum	Hiawatha	Brown	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Brown County Historical Society

Brown Mansion	Coffeyville	Montgomery	Southeast	Historic house	website, operated by the Coffeyville Historical Society

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	History	History of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools

Bukovina Society Headquarters and Museum	Ellis	Ellis	Northwest	Ethnic	Collection of artifacts from Bukovina emigrants

Burns Community Museum	Burns	Marion	South Central	Local history	Open by appointment

Bushton Museum	Bushton	Rice	South Central	Local history	Includes an old drug store with a working soda fountain and an old bank

Buster Keaton Museum	Shawnee	Johnson	Northeast	Biographical	website, life of actor Buster Keaton

Butterfield Trail Historical Museum	Russell Springs	Logan	Northwest	Local history	Area pioneers, local history and natural history of the Great Plains, and the history of the Butterfield Overland Despatch stage line

Carnegie Arts Center	Goodland	Sherman	Northwest	Art	Located in a former Carnegie library

Carona Depot Complex	Carona	Cherokee	Southeast	Railroad	website, includes museum building, two depots, railroad locomotives and a railroad signal display, operated by Heart of the Heartlands

Carry A. Nation Home and Museum	Medicine Lodge	Barber	South Central	Historic house	Included with admission to the Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum

Carroll Mansion Museum	Leavenworth	Leavenworth	Northeast	Historic house	website, operated by the Leavenworth County Historical Society, 1890s Victorian mansion

Cassoday Historical Museum	Cassoday	Butler	South Central	Local history

Cedar Vale Museum	Cedar Vale	Chautauqua	Southeast	Local history

Central States Scout Museum	Larned	Pawnee	Southwest	Scouting	Boy and girl scout memorabilia

Chanute Art Gallery	Chanute	Neosho	Southeast	Art	website, community art gallery

Chanute Historical Society Museum	Chanute	Neosho	Southeast	Local history	website

Chase County Historical Society Museum	Cottonwood Falls	Chase	Southeast	Local history	website

Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum	Arkansas City	Cowley	South Central	History	website, history of 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Run, early pioneer and Native American artifacts

Chetopa Museum	Chetopa	Labette	Southeast	Local history

Cheyenne County Museum	St. Francis	Cheyenne	Northwest	Local history	website, operated by the Cheyenne County Historical Society, local history, fossils, wildlife

Chisholm Trail Museum	Wellington	Sumner	South Central	Local history	website, artifacts of local domestic life

Clay County Museum	Clay Center	Clay	North Central	Local history	website, operated by the Clay County Historical Society

Clearwater Historical Society Museum	Clearwater	Sedgwick	Local history	website, period rooms including a military room, summer kitchen, laundry room, school room, doctor/dentist office, and general store

Clifton Community Historical Society Museum	Clifton	Clay	North Central	Local history	Open by appointment

Cloud County Historical Museum	Concordia	Cloud	North Central	Local history	Located in a former Carnegie library

Clyde Community Museum	Clyde	Cloud	North Central	Local history

C & R Railroad Museum	Phillipsburg	Phillips	Northwest	Railroad	Model railroads, C& R Railroad memorabilia and artifacts, located in the Huck Boyd Community Center

Coffey County Historical Society Museum	Burlington	Coffey	East-Central	Local history	website, includes large collection of antique dolls

Coffeyville Aviation Heritage Museum	Coffeyville	Montogomery	Southeast	Aviation	city information, information and photos, includes memorabilia from the Coffeyville Air Base

Cole House Museum	Moundridge	McPherson	South Central	Historic house	website, pioneer family home, operated by the Moundridge Historical Association, grounds also house the Heritage Museum, Agriculture Museum and blacksmith shop

Columbian Theatre, Museum & Art Center	Wamego	Pottawatomie	Northeast	Art	Historic theater with murals, decorative arts museum and art gallery

Columbus Museum	Columbus	Cherokee	Southeast	Local history

Comanche County Museum	Coldwater	Comanche	South Central	Local history

Combat Air Museum	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Aviation	Military aircraft, uniforms, medals, photos, artifacts

Constitution Hall State Historic Site	Lecompton	Douglas	Northeast	History	Exhibits on Jim Lane, proslavery and free-state forces in the area, territorial Kansas

Coronado Museum	Liberal	Seward	Southwest	Local history	website, operated by the Seward County Historical Society, exhibits include local settlers, American West, Native American's, Dorothy's House (recreation of Dorothy's house from the Wizard of Oz movie), and animated Oz entertainment and Oz memorabilia

Coronado-Quivira Museum	Lyons	Rice	South Central	Local history	http://www.cqmuseum.org/ website], operated by the Rice County Historical Society

Cosmosphere	Hutchinson	Reno	South Central	Aerospace	Exhibits of U.S. and Russian space artifacts and spacecraft, Justice Planetarium

Cottonwood Ranch State Historic Site	Studley	Sheridan	Northwest	Historic house	19th century rural ranch

Coutts Memorial Museum of Art	El Dorado	Butler	South Central	Art	website, over 1500 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints from America, the American West, Russia, China, France, the Netherlands, England and South America

Cowley County Historical Society Museum	Winfield	Cowley	South Central	Local history	website

Crispin's Drug Store Museum	Lincoln	Lincoln	North Central	Medical	website, historical artifacts from the pharmaceutical field, with special emphasis in 1880-1920 period

Cunningham Depot Museum	Cunningham	Kingman	South Central	Local history	Located in a historic depot

C.W. Parker Carousel Museum	Leavenworth	Leavenworth	Northeast	Amusement	Carousel memorabilia and history, includes working carousels, operated by the Leavenworth Historical Museum Association

Dane G. Hansen Museum	Logan	Phillips	Northwest	Art	website, includes paintings by Kansas artists, early American and foreign coins, European and Western guns

Dalton Defenders Museum	Coffeyville	Montgomery	Southeast	Local history	website, includes memorabilia from the 1892 Dalton Gang raid; operated by the Coffeyville Historical Society

Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum	Meade	Meade	Southwest	History	website, 1880s period home of Eva Dalton Whipple, sister to the infamous Dalton Gang

Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead	Overland Park	Johnson	Northeast	Open air	Includes 200 farm animals and birds of prey, gardens, Kanza Indian Encampment and earthen log lodge, a one-room country schoolhouse and a dairy barn with interactive displays

Decatur County Last Indian Raid Museum	Oberlin	Decatur	Northwest	Local history	website

Deines Cultural Center	Russell	Russell	Northwest	Art	website

Delphos Museum	Delphos	Ottawa	North Central	Local history

Derby Historical Museum	Derby	Sedgwick	South Central	Local history	Operated by the Derby Historical Society

Dietrich Cabin	Ottawa	Franklin	East-Central	Historic house	Operated by the Franklin County Historical Society, located in Ottawa City Park, mid-19th century log cabin and pioneer museum

Dole Institute of Politics	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	History	Free exhibits of politics and history

Douglass Historical Museum	Douglass	Butler	South Central	Local history	website

Edna Historical Museum	Edna	Labette	Southeast	Local history	website

Edwards County Historical Society Museum	Kinsley	Edwards	South Central	Local history	website

Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum	Abilene	Dickinson	North Central	Biographical	Presidential library, museum, and resting place of Dwight David Eisenhower, tours of his boyhood home

Ellis County Historical Society Museum	Hays	Ellis	Northwest	Open air	website, includes local history museum, stone chapel, harness shop, replica Volga German Haus

Ellis Railroad Museum	Ellis	Ellis	Northwest	Railroad	website, railroad memorabilia, miniature trains and dolls

El Quartelejo Museum	Scott City	Scott	Southwest	Local history	website, information, operated by the Scott County Historical Society, history of Western Kansas, fossils, local Indian and pioneer history, El Quartelejo Ruins, Western art

Emmett Kelly Museum	Sedan	Chautauqua	Southeast	Biographical	Life of famous circus clown Emmett Kelly, local history artifacts

Emporia State University Galleries	Emporia	Lyon	East-Central	Art	website, Norman R. Eppink and Gilson Memorial Galleries

Ennis-Handy House	Goodland	Sherman	Northwest	Historic house	Operated by the Sherman County Historical Society, 1907 Victorian period house

Ensor Park and Museum	Olathe	Johnson	Northeast	Historic house	website, information & photos, 1890s dairy farm and house

Epsten Gallery	Overland Park	Johnson	Northeast	Art	website, located in the Village Shalom continuum care facility

Erman B. White Gallery at Butler Community College	El Dorado	Butler	South Central	Art	website, located in the Fine Arts Building

Eudora Community Museum	Eudora	Douglas	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Eudora Area Historical Society

Evah C. Cray Historical Home Museum	Atchison	Atchison	Northeast	Historic house	website, 25 room castle-like Victorian mansion

Exploration Place	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Science

Fick Fossil Museum	Oakley	Logan	Northwest	Natural history	Fossils, folk art, Kansas Wildflower Collection, replica depot, general store display

Finney County Historical Museum	Garden City	Finney	Southwest	Local history	website, operated by the Finney County Historical Society

First City Museum	Leavenworth	Leavenworth	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Leavenworth Historical Museum Association

First Territorial Capitol State Historic Site	Fort Riley	Geary	Northeast	History	History of the Kansas Territory, rail and river travel in the region, and the history of Pawnee

Flint Hills Discovery Center	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Multiple	Natural history of the prairie, area history and culture

Fort Bissell Museum	Phillipsburg	Phillips	Northwest	Open air	website, 1870s-1880s frontier buildings, also known as Old Fort Bissell

Fort Harker (Kansas)	Kanopolis	Ellsworth	North Central	Military	Operated by the Ellsworth County Historical Society, mid 19th century US Army fort

Fort Hays State Historic Site	Hays	Ellis	Northwest	Military	1870s period fort

Fort Larned National Historic Site	Larned	Pawnee	Southwest	Military	Mid 19th century Indian Wars-period forts

Fort Riley Museums	Fort Riley	Geary	Northeast	Military	Includes the U.S. Cavalry Museum, 1st Infantry Division Museum and Custer Home

Fort Scott National Historic Site	Fort Scott	Bourbon	Southeast	Military	20 historic structures, a parade ground and 5 acres (20,000 m2) of restored tallgrass prairie

Fort Wallace Museum	Wallace	Wallace	Northwest	Local history	website, includes exhibits of antique transportation, farm equipment and machinery, railroads, and animals and scenes made entirely out of barbwire

Fossil Station Museum	Russell	Russell	Northwest	History	website, operated by the Russell County Historical Society, period rooms and artifacts

Frank Walker Museum	Stockton	Rooks	Northwest	Local history	website, operated by the Rooks County Historical Society, large doll collection, period displays

Fromme-Birney Round Barn	Mullinville	Kiowa	South Central	Agriculture	Operated by the Kiowa County Historical Society, 16-sided barn with exhibits on barns and agriculture

Frontier Army Museum	Fort Leavenworth	Leavenworth	Northeast	Military	website, history of the Frontier Army from 1804 to 1916, and Fort Leavenworth from 1827 to the present

Galena Mining and Historical Museum	Galena	Cherokee	Southeast	Mining	Includes mineral specimens, mining equipment and a model of the Grand Central Mine

Galva Museum	Galva	McPherson	South Central	Local history

Garden of Eden	Lucas	Russell	Northwest	Art	Concrete sculpture garden and home

Gardner Historical Museum	Gardner	Johnson	Northeast	History	website, preservation and exhibition of the history of reverse mortgages

Geary County Museum & Historical Society	Junction City	Geary	Northeast	Local history	website

Geneseo City History Museum	Geneseo	Rice	South Central	Local history

Gernon House	Russell	Russell	Northwest	Historic house	website, operated by the Russell County Historical Society, 1870s house and blacksmith shop

Goodnow House State Historic Site	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Historic house	Mid 19th century stone farmhouse

Graham County Historical Society Museum	Hill City	Graham	Northwest	Local history	website

Grant County Adobe Museum	Ulysses	Grant	Southwest	Local history	website, housed in a 1938 adobe building

Grassroots Art Center	Lucas	Russell	Northwest	Art	website, outsider art and sculpture

Great Overland Station	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Railroad	Former railroad station, includes railroad artifacts and photographs, local history displays, Harvey House and Harvey Girls exhibit, model train layout

Great Plains Nature Center	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Natural history	website, exhibits about state ecosystems, wildlife, located in 282-acre Chisholm Creek Park

Great Plains Transportation Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Railway	Includes 6 locomotives and several pieces of rolling stock

Greenwood County Historical Society Museum	Eureka	Greenwood	Southeast	Local history	website

Grenola Elevator Museum	Grenola	Elk	Southeast	Local history	website, operated by the Grenola Historical Society in a former grain mill and elevator

Greyhound Hall of Fame	Abilene	Dickinson	North Central	Hall of fame	website, displays of greyhounds from ancient times to the present

Grinter Place State Historic Site	Kansas City	Wyandotte	Northeast	Historic house	Pioneer farm house

Gunfighters Wax Museum	Dodge City	Ford	Southwest	Wax	website, wax figures of famous Old West people, located inside the Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame

Halstead Heritage Museum & Depot	Halstead	Harvey	South Central	Local history	website, operated by the Halstead Historical Society

Hamilton County Museum	Syracuse	Hamilton	Southwest	Local history	website, period displays

Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Food	Baking figurines, equipment, memorabilia, part of the American Institute of Baking

Harvey County Historical Museum	Newton	Harvey	South Central	Local history	Operated by the Harvey County Historical Society in a former Carnegie library, also the 1883 Kellas School

Harvey House Museum	Florence	Marion	South Central	Local history	Operated by the Florence Historical Society in a former Harvey House hotel

Haskell County Museum	Sublette	Haskell	Southwest	Local history	website

Haskell Cultural Center and Museum	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Native American	website, part of Haskell Indian Nations University, history and culture of the state's Native Americans, military service, history of the University

Haun Museum	Jetmore	Hodgeman	Southwest	Local history

Herington Historical Museum	Herington	Dickinson	North Central	Local history	Facebook site, operated by the Herington Historical Society

Heritage Center of Dickinson County	Abilene	Dickinson	North Central	Open air	website, includes Historical Museum, Museum of Independent Telephony, a cabin, a grocery store built in 1932 and a C.W. Parker Carousel

Heym-Oliver House	Russell	Russell	Northwest	Historic house	website, operated by the Russell County Historical Society, 1870s house

Highbanks Hall of Fame National Midget Auto Racing Museum	Belleville	Republic	North Central	Automotive	website

High Plains Museum	Goodland	Sherman	Northwest	Local history	website, includes a full-sized, automated replica of America's first patented helicopter

Historical Museum of Anthony	Anthony	Harper	South Central	Local history	Located in a Santa Fe Railroad Depot

Hoisington Historical Museum	Hoisington	Barton	South Central	Local history	website, operated by the Hoisington Historical Society

Hollenberg Pony Express Station State Historic Site	Hanover	Washington	Northeast	History	Building used as a stop for the Pony Express

Holt-Russell Gallery at Baker University	Baldwin City	Douglas	Northeast	Art	website, located in Parmenter Hall, features art by students, faculty and local, national and international artists

Humboldt Historical Museum	Humboldt	Allen	Southeast	Open air	website, five buildings with exhibits including iron toys, tools and farm implements, local history displays

Independence Historical Museum and Art Center	Independence	Montgomery	Southeast	Local history	website, home of Montgomery County Historical Society, early settler' lifestyle, oil industry history, Native American culture, local historical artifacts, period room displays, furnishings and decorative items, art center, Kansas Celebrity Hall of Fame

Indian Pay Station & Museum Complex]	St. Marys	Pottawatomie	Northeast	Local history

Inman Museum	Inman	McPherson	South Central	Open air	website, includes the museum, 1906 telephone office, depot, caboose, 1875 Wilke homestead house; formerly the McCormick - Deering Days Museum

Iron Horse Museum	Parsons	Labette	Southeast	Railroad	Operated by the Ironhorse Historical Society, includes railroad memorabilia, a locomotive and caboose

Jackson County Historical Society Museum	Holton	Jackson	Topeka metro	Local history	website

Jeffcoat Photograph Studio Museum	Abilene	Dickinson	North Central	History	website, historic photographs of Abilene and Dickinson County

Jewell County Historical Society Museum	Mankato	Jewell	North Central	Local history	website

John Brown Museum State Historic Site	Osawatomie	Miami	East-Central	History	Abolition and Civil war displays and furnishings

Johnson County Museum of History (Kansas)	Shawnee	Johnson	Northeast	Local history	website, County history and culture

Johnston Geology Museum	Emporia	Lyon	East-Central	Geology	website, also known as ESU Geology Museum, in ESU Cram Science Hall of Emporia State University

Kansas African American Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	African American	website

Kansas Auto Racing Museum	Chapman	Dickinson	North Central	Automotive	website

Kansas Aviation Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Aviation

Kansas Barbed Wire Museum	La Crosse	Rush	South Central	Commodity	Barbed wire and its history

Kansas Children's Discovery Center	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Children's

Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame	Dodge City	Ford	Southwest	Hall of fame	Part of Boot Hill Museum

Kansas Firefighters Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Firefighting	website

Kansas Learning Center for Health	Halstead	Harvey	South Central	Medical	website, human body and health displays for children and families

Kansas Motorcycle Museum	Marquette	McPherson	South Central	Transportation	Vintage and rare motorcycles, memorabilia and artifacts

Kansas Museum of History	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	History	Operated by the Kansas State Historical Society

Kansas Museum of Military History	Augusta	Butler	South Central	Military	Includes model airplanes, military vehicles, uniforms, equipment, memorabilia; formerly the Augusta Air Museum

Kansas Oil Museum	El Dorado	Butler	South Central	Industry	website, oil industry, farming, ranching exhibits, oil boom town complex and oil equipment; also known as Butler County History Center

Kansas Oil and Gas Hall of Fame & Museum	Great Bend	Barton	South Central	Industry	Open by appointment

Kansas Sports Hall of Fame	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Sports	History of sports in Kansas

Kansas State Capitol	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	History	Tours operated by the Kansas State Historical Society

Kansas Soldiers' Home	Fort Dodge	Ford	Southwest	History	Tours of 19th-century former fort buildings

Kansas State University Historic Costume and Textile Museum	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Textile	website, located in Justin Hall

Kansas State University Insect Zoo	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Natural history	website, housed in the old Dairy Barn

Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame	Dodge City	Ford	Southwest	Education	website, photos and stories about Kansas' notable teaching professionals

Kauffman Museum	North Newton	Harvey	South Central	History	website, affiliated with Bethel College, exhibits on prairie life and natural history, area immigrant pioneers, historic farmstead house and prairie reconstruction

Kaw Mission State Historic Site	Council Grove	Morris	Southeast	Native American	Early mission for children of the Kaw tribe

Kearny County Historical Museum	Lakin	Kearny	Southwest	Open air	website, complex includes museum building and annex, the White House, the schoolhouse, depot and a metal building to house farm equipment

Keystone Gallery	Oakley	Logan	Northwest	Natural history	website, art gallery and fossil museum

Kingman County Historical Museum	Kingman	Kingman	South Central	Local history	website, operated by the Kingman County Historical Society

Kiowa County Historical Museum & Soda Fountain	Greensburg	Kiowa	South Central	Local history	website, located in the Kiowa County Commons Building, operated by the Kiowa County Historical Society, features a soda fountain display

Koester House Museum	Marysville	Marshall	Northeast	Historic house	website, 1876 house decorated with items all belonging to the members of the family that lived there, operated by the Marshall County Historical Society

La Cygne Historical Society Museum	La Cygne	Linn	East-Central	Local history	website

Lawrence Arts Center	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Art	Visual and performing arts center

Lane County Historical Museum	Dighton	Lane	Southwest	Local history	website, operated by the Lane County Historical Society

Lanesfield School Historic Site	Edgerton	Johnson	Northeast	Education	website, history of rural education in Kansas and Johnson County

Lane University & Territorial Capital Museum	Lecompton	Douglas	Northeast	History	Kansas history before the Civil War

Lansing Historical Museum	Lansing	Leavenworth	Northeast	Local history	website, local and railroad history, history of the Lansing Correctional Facility

Legler Barn Museum	Lenexa	Johnson	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Lenexa Historical Society, complex includes the Legler stone barn with local history exhibits and Lenexa historic depot with local transportation exhibits

Lincoln County, Kansas, Historical Museum	Lincoln	Lincoln	North Central	Open air	website, operated by the Lincoln County Historical Society, includes Kyne House Museum, a one-room school and early businesses, such as a newspaper office, funeral home, general store

Linn County Museum	Pleasanton	Linn	East-Central	Local history	Operated by the Linn County Historical Society

Logan Area Historical Museum	Logan	Phillips	Northwest	Local history	Operated by the Logan Area Historical Society

Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Anthropology	Part of Wichita State University, cultural items from around the world and archaeological objects predominantly from the American Midwest and Southwest

Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes	Fort Scott	Bourbon	Southeast	Unsung Hero History	Showcasing Unsung Heroes discovered by students grade 6-12 - Website: https://www.lowellmilkencenter.org

Lyon County History Center	Emporia	Lyon	East-Central	Local history	website

Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Historic Site	Olathe	Johnson	Northeast	Historic house	Mid 19th century stage coach stop and farm

Major General Frederick Funston Home	Iola	Allen	Southeast	Biographical	website, operated by the Allen County Historical Society, Victorian home of Frederick Funston

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Art	Part of Kansas State University, emphasizes the art of Kansas and the surrounding region

Marion City Museum	Marion	Marion	South Central	Local history	website

Marshall County Courthouse Museum	Marysville	Marshall	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Marshall County Historical Society

Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum	Chanute	Neosho	Southeast	Biographical	Life and travels of adventurers Martin and Osa Johnson

Marysville Doll Museum	Marysville	Marshall	Northeast	Doll

McPherson Museum	McPherson	McPherson	South Central	Local history	History and cultural heritage of the McPherson community, geology, paleontology, pioneer history, fine art, Native American history

McPherson County Old Mill Museum	Lindsborg	McPherson	South Central	Open air	Includes 1898 Smoky Valley Roller Mill, 1904 World's Fair Swedish Pavilion and other buildings with local history exhibits

Meade County Historical Museum	Meade	Meade	Southwest	Local history	website, operated by the Meade County Historical Society

Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum	Medicine Lodge	Barber	South Central	History	website, includes reproduction frontier fort, museum, Smith Log Cabin, Old Courthouse Jail, admission to the Carrie Nation House

Mem-Erie Museum	Erie	Neosho	Southeast	Local history	Operated by the Neosho County Historical Society

Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum	Goessel	Marion	South Central	Open air	website, late 19th century Russian Mennonite pioneer buildings and history, artifacts about the progression of mechanization in farming from the 1800s to the mid 1960s

Mennonite Settlement Museum	Hillsboro	Marion	South Central	Historic house	website, includes 1876 Peter Paul Loewen House (a Russian Mennonite clay brick house), and reproduction 1876 Friesen Dutch Windmill

Miami County Historical Museum	Paola	Miami	East-Central	Local history	website, also known as Swan River Museum, housed in three 19th century buildings

Mid-America Air Museum	Liberal	Seward	Southwest	Aviation	Features over 100 aircraft

Mid-America All-Indian Center	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Native American	Art and culture of American Indians of the United States

Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site	Pleasanton	Linn	East-Central	Military	Civil War exhibits

Miners Hall Museum	Franklin	Crawford	Southeast	Mining	website, area coal mining, located within the Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum

Mitchell County Museum	Beloit	Mitchell	North Central	Local history	Facebook site, operated by the Mitchell County Historical Society

W.H. Morgan House	Peabody	Marion	South Central	Historic house	1881 two-story cottage, operated by the Peabody Historical Society

Morton County Historical Society Museum	Elkhart	Morton	Southwest	Local history	website, exhibits on pioneer life on the Santa Fe Trail

Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art	Hays	Ellis	Northwest	Art	website, part of Fort Hays State University in Rarick Hall

Mound City Historic Park	Mound City	Linn	East-Central	Open air	website, operated by the Mound City Historical Society, includes school, depot, barn, windmill, log cabin, historic house

Mound Valley Historical Museum	Mound Valley	Labette	Southeast	Local history

Moundridge Depot Museum	Moundridge	McPherson	South Central	Railroad	website, restored 1880s depot, open by appointment, operated by the Moundridge Historical Association

Mueller-Schmidt House Museum	Dodge City	Ford	Southwest	Historic house	Operated by the Ford County Historical Society, 1880s house

Mulvane Art Museum	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Art	website, part of Washburn University, collection features 4,000 pieces of fine art including paintings, prints, sculptures and decorative art

Mulvane Historical Museum	Mulvane	Sedgwick	South Central	Local history	website, operated by the Mulvane Historical Society in a historic Santa Fe Railroad depot

Museum at Prairiefire	Overland Park	Johnson	Northeast	Natural history	Natural history of Kansas, included dinosaurs, traveling exhibitions from the American Museum of Natural History

Museum of Crawford County	Girard	Crawford	Southeast	Local history

Museum of the Kansas National Guard	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Military	website, history of the Kansas National Guard

Museum of World Treasures	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Multiple	Includes exhibits on fossils, ancient Egypt, American military history, American Presidents and European royalty, frontier and Old West history and more

Museum of the Great Plains	Leoti	Wichita	Southwest	Local history	website, operated by the Wichita County Historical Society

National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame	Bonner Springs	Wyandotte	Northeast	Agriculture	Includes museum of farming, gallery with rural art and artifacts, National Poultry Museum, 1890s period house, recreated rural village

National Glass Museum	Wellington	Sumner	South Central	Glass	website, museum of American-made glass with an emphasis on the Depression era, operated by the National Depression Glass Association

National Fred Harvey Museum	Leavenworth	Leavenworth	Northeast	Historic house	website, planned museum, operated by the Leavenworth Historical Museum Association

National Orphan Train Complex	Concordia	Cloud	North Central	History	Story of the Orphan Train Movement from 1854-1929

Nehama County Historical Museum	Seneca	Nemaha	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Nehama County Historical Society, housed in a former jail and sheriff's residence, also nearby Masonic building with military exhibits

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art	Overland Park	Johnson	Northeast	Art	Part of Johnson County Community College, features works of international, national and regional artists

Ness County Historical Museum	Ness City	Ness	Southwest	Local history	Includes the museum, Oil and Agriculture Museum, Ness City's first schoolhouse and local artifacts

Nicodemus National Historic Site	Nicodemus	Grant	Southwest	African American	Only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War

Norton County Historical Museum	Norton	Norton	Northwest	Local history	Operated by the Norton County Historical Society

Oil Patch Museum	Russell	Russell	Northwest	Industry	website, operated by the Russell County Historical Society, local oil discovery and production

Old Castle Museum	Baldwin City	Douglas	Northeast	Local history	Part of Baker University, artifacts from early Kansas, Methodist, and Baker history, Kibbee cabin

Old Cowtown Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Living	1870s mid-western cattle town

Old Depot Museum	Ottawa	Franklin	East-Central	Local history	Operated by the Franklin County Historical Society, history of local Native Americans, local industries, railroads, recreations of historical rooms

Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Open air	Complex with a Victorian home, log cabin, turn-of-the-20th-century town and a 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) botanical garden

Osage County Museum	Lyndon	Osage	Topeka metro	Local history	website, operated by the Osage County Historical Society

Osawatomie History Museum	Osawatomie	Miami	East-Central	Local history	website

Osborne County Historical Museum	Osborne	Osborne	Northwest	Local history	Local artifacts and a school

Oswego Historical Museum	Oswego	Labette	Southeast	Local history	website, period displays, log cabin nearby, operated by the Oswego Historical Society

Ottawa County Historical Museum	Minneapolis	Ottawa	North Central	Local history	website

Oz Museum	Wamego	Pottawatomie	Northeast	Media	website, Oz memorabilia

Palmer Museum	Jewell	Jewell	North Central	Local history	Oen by appointment, history of the community and small-town newspapers, features historic printing equipment

Paradise Doll Hospital & Museum	Towanda	Butler	South Central	Doll

Parker Museum	Parker	Linn	East-Central	Local history	website, operated by the Parker Community Historical Society

Parsons Historical Museum	Parsons	Labette	Southeast	Local history	website, operated by the Parsons Historical Society

Paul Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings	Belleville	Republic	North Central	Art	Animated folk art carvings

Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site	Republic	Republic	North Central	Native American	Archaeological remains and exhibits of an 1820s Pawnee village

Peabody Historical Library Museum	Peabody	Marion	South Central	Local history	Operated by the Peabody Historical Society

Peabody Printing Museum	Peabody	Marion	South Central	Technology	Collection of hot type equipment dating from 1870–1920

Pioneer-Krier Museum	Ashland	Clark	Southwest	Local history	website, operated by the Clark County Historical Society

Pony Express Barn	Marysville	Marshall	Northeast	Transportation	website, operated by the Marshall County Historical Society, barn used as Home Station No. 1 on the Pony Express route

Pony Express Museum	Seneca	Nemaha	Northeast	Local history	Includes saloon, blacksmith shop, schoolroom, stables, kitchen with many items from the historic Smith Hotel, a parlor and bedroom typical of the hotel

Post Rock Scout Museum	Lincoln	Lincoln	North Central	Scouting	website, historical artifacts of scouting organizations, open by appointment

Prairie Museum of Art and History	Colby	Thomas	Northwest	Multiple	website, operated by the Thomas County Historical Society, collections of toys & dolls, glass, ceramics, clothing, furnishings; barn with agriculture machinery & displays, sod house, church, 1930s farmstead, one room school

Pratt County Historical Museum	Pratt	Pratt	South Central	Local history	website

Quayle Bible Collection	Baldwin City	Douglas	Northeast	Literary	website, part of Baker University in the Collins Library

Rawlins County Museum	Atwood	Rawlins	Northwest	Local history	Operated by the Rawlins County Historical Society, includes re-creations of a beauty parlor, post office, doctor's office, dentist's office and a school room

Red Barn Studio Museum	Lindsborg	McPherson	South Central	Art	website, working studio of professional artist and craftsman Lester Raymer (1907-1991), operated by the Raymer Society for the Arts

Republic County Historical Society Museum	Belleville	Republic	North Central	Local history	website

Reno County Museum	Hutchinson	Reno	South Central	Local history	website

Richmond Community Museum	Richmond	Franklin	East-Central Kansas	Local history	Facebook site

Riley County Historical Museum	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Riley County Historical Society, includes the Hartford House

Rock Creek Valley Historical Society Museum	Westmoreland	Pottawatomie	Northeast	Open air	website, includes main museum, a two-story log cabin, historic stone church, an annex for large machinery and equipment

Roebke Memorial Museum	Holton	Jackson	Topeka metro	Local history	website, operated by the Jackson County Historical Society, 1876 house with local history and cultural displays

Roniger Memorial Museum	Cottonwood Falls	Chase	Southeast	Native American	Native American artifacts and local history items

Rush County Historical Society	LaCrosse	Rush	South Central	Multiple	website, complex includes Post Rock Museum with displays of pioneer history, Rush County Historical Museum in a former depot, and Nekoma Bank Museum with bank displays

Salina Art Center	Salina	Saline	North Central	Art	website

Salter House Museum	Argonia	Sumner	South Central	Historic house	Open by appointment by the Argonia and Western Sumner County Historical Society, 1880s period house

Santa Fe Trail Center	Larned	Pawnee	Southwest	Open air	website, local history and history of the Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail Museum	Ingalls	Gray	Southwest	Local history

Scandia Museum	Scandia	Republic	North Central	Local history	information

Shafer Gallery	Great Bend	Barton	South Central	Art	website, officially known as the L. E. "Gus" and Eva Shafer Memorial Art Gallery, part of Barton Community College

Shaffer House Museum and Art Center	Moline	Elk	Southeast	Local history

Schuyler Museum	Burlingame	Osage	Topeka metro	Local history	information, operated by the Burlingame Historical Preservation Society in the former Schuyler Grade School

Schmidt Museum of Natural History	Emporia	Lyon	East-Central	Natural history	website, part of Emporia State University

Seelye Mansion	Abilene	Dickinson	North Central	Historic house	website, 1905 25-room mansion, includes Patent Medicine Museum

Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site	Fairway	Johnson	Northeast	History	Mission history and period rooms

Shawnee Town	Shawnee	Johnson	Northeast	Open air	website, small town rural life from the 1920s

Sheridan County Historical Society & Mickey's Museum	Hoxie	Sheridan	Northwest	Local history	https://www.facebook.com/SCHSMMKS/ Facebook site]

Smoky Hill Museum	Salina	Saline	North Central	Local history	website

Souders Historical Museum	Cheney	Sedgwick	Open air	Open by appointment, late 1880s and early 20th century small town buildings

Spencer Museum of Art	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Art	Part of University of Kansas

Stafford County Museum	Stafford	Strafford	South Central	Local history	website, operated by the Stafford County Historical & Genealogical Society

Stanton County Museum	Johnson	Stanton	Southwest	Open air	Facebook site, includes train depot, jail, caboose, grain elevator, general store, 1935 WPA building, historic houses

Stauth Memorial Museum	Montezuma	Gray	Southwest	Cultural	website, handicrafts and arts from around the world, displays about history, art, science

Sternberg Museum of Natural History	Hays	Ellis	Northwest	Natural history	Part of Fort Hays State University, includes dinosaurs, fossils, prehistoric animals, giant sea-swimming lizards and fish

Stevens County Gas & Historical Museum	Hugoton	Stevens	Southwest	Open air	website, complex includes museum of local history artifacts, train depot, 1887 school house, 1887 home, grocery store and barber shop, jail, 1905 church, Professional Building with tribute to Hugoton's past judges and lawyers and the Agricultural Building with displays of farm equipment & implements

Strang Carriage House	Overland Park	Johnson	Northeast	Local history	Serves as home to the Overland Park Historical Society and showcases a collection of items from the early history of Overland Park and the surrounding area.

Strataca	Hutchinson	Reno	South Central	Mining	Underground rock salt mine and museum, also known as Kansas Underground Salt Museum

Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center	Kansas City	Wyandotte	Northwest	Cultural	website, permanent exhibits for the countries of Croatia, the Ukraine, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Russia

They Also Ran Gallery	Norton	Norton	Northwest	History	website, photographs and information about defeated candidates for the U.S. Presidency

Topeka Computing Museum	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Technology	website, displays of historic personal computers and electronic game systems

Tonganoxie Community Historical Society and Museum	Tonganoxie	Leavenworth	Open air	website includes the museum of local history housed in the milk parlor, the Fairchild/Knox Dairy barn, Honey Valley School, Reno Methodist Church and fire house

Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library	Topeka	Shawnee	Topeka metro	Art	Includes the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery

Towanda Area Historical Museum	Towanda	Butler	South Central	Local history	Operated by the Towanda Historical Society

Trading Post Museum	Pleasanton	Linn	East-Central	Local history

Trego County Museum	WaKeeney	Trego	Northwest	Local history	website, operated by the Trego County Historical Society

Ulrich Museum of Art	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Art	website, part of Wichita State University, modern and contemporary art, features 76-piece Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection

University of Kansas Natural History Museum	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Natural history	Part of University of Kansas, also known as Dyche Museum of Natural History

Valley Center Historical Museum	Valley Center	Sedgwick	South Central	Local history	website, operated by the Valley Center Historical and Cultural Society

Valley Falls Historical Society Museum	Valley Falls	Jefferson	Topeka metro	Local history	website

Wabaunsee County Historical Museum	Alma	Wabaunsee	Topeka metro	History	website, operated by the Wabaunsee County Historical Society

Wakefield Museum	Wakefield	Clay	North Central	Local history	website

Waller-Coolbaugh 20th Century House	Stockton	Rooks	Northwest	Historic house	1905 High Classical Revival residence

Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home & Museum	Ellis	Ellis	Northwest	Biographical	website, information

Wamego Historical Museum	Wamego	Pottawatomie	Northeast	Open air	website, includes Old Dutch Mill and museum complex with a local history museum, prairie town village including a one-room school house, rock jail and log cabin; operated by the Wamego Historical Society

Warkentin House	Newton	Harvey	South Central	Historic house	1880s Victorian mansion

Washington County Museum	Washington	Washington	Northeast	Local history	Operated by the Washington County Historical & Genealogical Society

Watkins Community Museum of History	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Douglas County Historical Society

Wichita Art Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Art	Works by American painters, potters, sculptors and textile weavers

Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum	Wichita	Sedgwick	South Central	Local history

Wilcox Classical Museum	Lawrence	Douglas	Northeast	Art	website, part of University of Kansas, plaster casts of Greek and Roman Sculpture and Greek and Roman antiquities

William Allen White House State Historic Site	Emporia	Lyon	East-Central	Biographical	Home of newspaperman and author William Allen White, also known as Red Rocks State Historic Site

William F. Schaeffler House	Hillsboro	Marion	South Central	Historic house	website, early 20th century Edwardian home

William J. Marra Museum of Deaf History & Deaf Culture	Olathe	Johnson	Northeast	Education	information & photos, history of the Kansas State School For the Deaf and deaf culture

Wilson County Historical Museum	Fredonia	Wilson	Southeast	Local history	Operated by the Wilson County Historical Society

Wilson Czech Opera House & Museum	Wilson	Ellsworth	North Central	Local history	Czech immigrant heritage artifacts

Wolf House	Manhattan	Riley	Northeast	Local history	website, operated by the Riley County Historical Society, 1880s period home

Wonderscope	Shawnee	Johnson	Northeast	Children's	website

Woodson County Historical Museum	Yates Center	Woodson	Southeast	Local history

World War II History Center	El Dorado	Butler	South Central	History	website, includes information about the entire war on the European, Pacific and Home Fronts

Wyandotte County Historical Museum	Bonner Springs	Wyandotte	Northeast	Local history	website, information and photos

Yesterday House Museum	Sylvan Grove	Lincoln	North Central	Local history	website, operated by the Sylvan Grove Historical Society

Yesteryear Museum	Salina	Saline	North Central	Agriculture	website, agriculture, cultural displays depicting early rural life in 1900s, also known as Central Kansas Flywheels Museum

Yost Art Gallery	Highland	Doniphan	Northeast	Art	website, part of Highland Community College

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Comanche County is a Historical Museum in Kansas.

final_sentence: Comanche County is a Historical Museum in Kansas.