SENIOR WEDNESDAYS
Senior Wednesday Programs at the Historical Museum occur every 4th Wednesday, January through October at 10:00am, doors open at 9:30am.
Programs can be viewed both at the Museum or a short time later on the Museum's Youtube channel or Facebook (@wichitahistory).
Presentations are followed by a related tour in the exhibition galleries.
Sponsored in part by generous funding by The Charles and Joanne McIlwaine Foundation.
Admission for non-members is $ 2.00 and free to members and their guests.
Links to videos of past programs:
Century II Civic Center: Wichita's 100 Year Celebration
Building Modern: Exploring Local Architecture of the 1950s and 60s
Museum Docents Present Their Favorites 2023
The Life and Times of Rea Woodman by Jim Mason
Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality Before and After Brown v. Board by Valerie Mendoza
Pride: From Stonewall to Small Town Kansas by Brandon West
A conversation on Myths of the West with Ulrich Curator Ksenya Gurshtein
William Allen White and the KKK in Kansas presented by Beverly Olson Buller
Authenti-city: Wichita Series with Bill Goffrier
Architecture of the People's Houses with Murl Riedel
Iconic Eats of Wichita with Joe Stumpe
Gone But Not Forgotten: Restaurants of Wichita's Past with Denise Neil
Turn it up to 90 – the Electric Guitar and the 90th Anniversary of it Wichita World Debut.
1918 Influenza Pandemic with Beccy Tanner
Wichita Pioneer Robert E Lawrence with Gary Huffman
2024 Senior Wednesday Programs
- January 24 — Kansas Day Celebration
- February 28 — "Building Modern: Exploring Local Architecture of the 1950s and 60s"
- March 27 — "Century II Civic Center: Wichita’s 100 Year Celebration"
- April 24 — A Screening of "Color Me Wichita" a New Series by the Harmon Sisters
- May 22 — "Dude Just Google it: Making Public Art Public"
- June 26 — "You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto: Evolution of Language In Kansas"
- July 24 — "Fiber Fantasia: A Conversation With a Wichita Weaver"
- August 28 — "Wichita's Treasure Hunters"
- September 25 — "Waste Not, Want Not: Reimagining Fashion through Thrift Style"
- October 23 — Museum Docents Present Their Favorites