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In cooperation with the Shawnee Parks and Recreation event, Touch a Truck, families are invited to experience Shawnee Town’s Time Travelers program free of charge! The... details>>
Da Vinci was a dreamer and an inventor. Math, science and art are highlighted in this interactive, hands-on exhibit. Catapults, parachutes, and a hang glider are some of the... details>>
Experience a 1920s Summer! Welcome to Time Travelers living history program! Step back in time to the “Roaring Twenties” and experience what it was like to live on a... details>>
The spirit of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart is alive and well! Each summer the community honors its favorite daughter, complete with a downtown music, food and crafts... details>>
This yearlong exhibit chronicles the 100-year history of Kansas City’s Guadalupe Centers, Inc. – and by extension, the history of the city’s thriving Hispanic and Latino... details>>
2/25/2019 8:30:00 AM | Kansas City, KS
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library's Black History Month Challenge
Take our Black History Month Challenge! How much do you know about Black History? Test your knowledge and win a prize. Answer all the questions on our challenge and collect your prize! All questions can be answered by visiting the displays within the library....details >>
2/25/2019 9:00:00 AM | Overland Park, KS
The Turbulent Twenties
AAA estimates that 112.5 million Americans traveled over Christmas and New Year holidays in 2018 (about 1-in-3 Americans). The vast majority—more than 102 million—drove to their destination. Americans love their cars. Johnson County Museum’s temporary exhibit, “The Turbulent Twenties,” is on display through May 11, 2019. The exhibit explores many facets of American culture in the 1920s, both nationally and locally....details >>
2/25/2019 6:30:00 PM | Kansas City, MO
Selfies with Sacajawea: The Corp of Re-Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Trail
More than 200 years after explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their historic 29-month expedition across the untamed American West, Nebraska videographer Nelson Petersen and a couple of friends decided to trace their footsteps. In a humor-laced discussion of his book, Selfies with Sacajawea, the inveterate history geek Nelson Peterson recounts his 14-day trek with friends from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean, retracing the route of the famed 19th-century explorers....details >>
