School Information

Discover a distinctive local landmark, Wichita's original 1890 City Hall, now home to the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum- one of America's finest museums of local history and the perfect setting for your...Adventure in Time!

School Tours

The Museum provides guided tours for all school groups!  School Tours have been carefully designed to follow the Kansas Curricular Standards.  Bus funding is available.

 

 

 

Are you an educator for a public school in Sumner County? Contact us about a wonderful opportunity through the Kansas All-Star Scholars Fund to visit both Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum AND Old Cowtown Museum for free!

 

Cost

Your admission is a class donation of any amount. Community support is essential to the Museum’s success. Take up a collection and support the Museum!

 

Click here to learn how to schedule your tour, today!

Contact Us

For inquiries regarding guided tours and school visits, please contact Museum Educators at:

Phone: (316) 265-9314

Email: tours@wichitahistory.org

Before Settlement

(Grades 2-5) Before this city was created, how did the Native people live here? Discover the many uses of the bison, the Wichita Tribe, the early white settlers, and their actions. History Standard: Choices have consequences English Standard: Speaking & Listening, Reading: Informational

Wichita Then and Now

(Grades 3-12) Investigate the lives of Wichitans from the past. How were things different? You might be surprised how similar life today is. This tour can be a general Wichita life tour or focus on transportation, music, clothing, and more. History Standard: Societies experience continuity and change over time English Standard: Speaking & Listening, Reading: Informational

Government

(Grades 9-12) Explore the role of the government in the early days of the city of Wichita. How did they get the rights to build a city? Who was involved in its governance? Who was excluded? History Standard: Individuals have rights and responsibilities English Standard: Speaking & Listening, Reading: Informational

A Child’s World

(Grades 1-2) Explore an exhibition of toys, clothing and activities from our past. Compare and contrast these to what we experience today. This tour include hands on games and activities.

Life in the Victorian Era

(Grades 3-8) Explore our Wichita Cottage and learn about the popular culture, customs, etiquette, and technology of the late-1800s in Wichita. This tour has an optional craft-making component. History Standard: Societies are shaped by the identities, beliefs, and practices of individuals and groups English Standard: Speaking & Listening, Reading: Informational

What Makes a City?

(Grades 6-12) What makes a city? The land, the people, the businesses, the attractions? Step back in time to explore what it takes to create a city and make it thrive. Discover how Wichita went from a frontier town to one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. History Standard: Relationships among people, places, ideas, and environments are dynamic English Standard: Speaking & Listening, Reading: Informational

Wichita the Magic City

(Grades 3-5) Discover the story of Wichita’s early days of rapid growth and lofty goals including the construction of the City Hall building where the Museum resides today. Explore how people hoped to live and what they wanted to achieve. This tour focuses on the exhibition of the same name, and the immersive exhibits “the Wichita Cottage” and the “Mayor’s Office.” History Standard: Societies experience continuity and change over time English Standard: Speaking & Listening, Reading: Informational

At Home with History

The Museum has been housed in Wichita’s original City Hall for the last four decades. This landmark building was constructed in 1890 and is considered an exhibit in itself. A wide variety of the Museum’s exhibits showcase life in Wichita over the centuries, from the Wichita Indian tribe—whose name the town adopted— to the cowboys who drove their cattle here, to the dawn of aviation and the City’s role as the Air Capital of the World.

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Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
204 S. Main St.
Wichita, Kansas 67202
316.265.9314

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