Windows: “Portraits From the Museum Collection” Preview

The Museum’s collection includes a variety of portraits, most of which depict people of Wichita and Sedgwick County. They are created for many reasons: from…

Thrift Finds in the Museum Collection

Since 1939, the Historical Museum has been actively collecting and preserving artifacts central to telling our local history’s stories. These artifacts are acquired in a…

Being Modern

This exhibition follows (and is directly patterned after) the Museum’s previous exhibit Art Deco on the Plains. It takes the timeline forward to explore modern…

Portraits From the Museum Collection

The urge to create or possess a visual representation of a specific person – a portrait - is present throughout history. Portraits are created for…