Upcoming Exhibit. Tell Us your stories.

Happy 2012. 

We are busy working on an exciting exhibition schedule for 2012 and it includes a traveling exhibition looking at Civil Rights across the country.  To tie our local history into this traveling exhibition, we are creating a panel series “Separate, but equal? Civil rights in Wyandotte County”… do you have stories or remember Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte County when they were segregated? Did the Urban Renewal project have an impact on your or your family?  Tell us your stories!! And, come view the exhibition in spring 2012!

 

Upcoming Bus Tour

Historic Sites of Wyandotte county Bus Tour

 September 12, 2011

Leaves the Wyandotte County Historical Museum at 8 a.m. and Arrives Back at Museum by 12:30 p.m.

 Sponsored by: Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum

 This half-day tour of old Wyandotte County features sites along Kaw Point, Downtown Kansas City, Kansas and the old White Church area

 Visit:

Huron Cemetery

Kaw Point

Old Quindaro

Parkview

Hovey House and much more!

 Cost: $25 per person (Lunch included!)

 Make checks payable to the Wyandotte County Historical Society & Museum.

Mail to 631 N. 126^th, Bonner Springs, KS attn: Bill Gregg

 

Hours Update

The annual quilt show is still on exhibit! Come out and view the beautiful quilts that belong to community members.

On Thursday, September 1, the museum will close early at Noon due to a large Cross Country event that is being held in the Wyandotte County Park.  The entrances to the park and museum will be barricaded, so please plan accordingly. 

The museum will also be closed on Saturday, September 3-Monday September 5 for the Labor Day Holiday.  All Unified Government offices are closed in observation.  We will reopen on Tuesday the 6th at normal museum hours.

 

Closed on Saturday, August 13.

The museum will be closed this Saturday due to the Special Olympics Walk/Run that will be taking place in the Wyandotte County Park.  Due to the event, the entrances will be barricaded and access will be limited to participants of the charity event.  We will reopen on Monday, the 15th at our normal time of 9am.  Sorry for any inconveniences, but it is for a great cause!  For more information on the event taking place throughout the park, visit:

http://www.sportkc.org/sportkc.aspx?pgID=866&event_id=598

 

Quilt Show!

Our annual quilt show is currently in full swing and will be open to the public until September 30! We had so many entries this year that it is bursting out of the auditorium.  Thank you to everyone who participated!

 

Last Day!

Today is our last day for our traveling exhibition from the US Holocaust Museum, Fighting the Fires of Hate.  We are open from 9am to 4pm.  If you haven’t had a chance to come out to view it, please try to today!  Next Monday staff will deinstall the exhibition where it will travel to Delaware, so Kansans have one more day!

 

We are open tomorrow with our “regular” summer hours:

• Saturday: 9am -Noon
• Sunday: Closed

 

Last week. End of Special Hours.

This is the last week for our special exhibition, “Fighting the Fires of Hate” from the US Holocaust Museum.  The museum will be open Monday through Friday, from 9am to 4pm.  We will be back to our normal Saturday hours, from 9am-Noon and we will now be closed on Sundays.  If you have any questions, please call the museum at 913.573.5002.

 

Speaker TONIGHT

Tonight is our second program in our speaker series related to the Fighting the Fire of Hate exhibition from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

Ronda Hassig* will be presenting, Third Reich/2010: Censorship Then and Now.  The program starts at 6:30 at the George Meyn building and the exhibition will be open at the museum before her program begins. 

*Ronda Hassig is a library media specialist at Harmony Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas.  With degrees from Kansas University and Kansas State University she also has her national board certification.  Hassig is part of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Studies Teaching Cadre.  She has been to many of the concentration camps and two death camps and is an Alfred Lerner Fellow.  Hassig was named a Kansas Master Teacher in 2008 and just this past month won her second national award from ALA (American Library Association) “The Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming.” Finally, although she is still waiting for her first galley, her book “Caught in the Maelstrom” a story about William Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence in August of 1863 will hopefully be published this year – Kansas’ 150^th birthday!

 

May 1: HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR PROGRAM

This is just a reminder that on this Sunday, we are planning a wonderful event featuring a Holocaust Survivor, Mike Jacobs’ from Dallas, Texas. Jacobs’ will give a program at 2 pm at the George Meyn Building (straight east from the museum parking lot) followed by a book signing.

Before his program, we will plant a tree in remembrance of the Holocaust at 1pm outside of the museum. This will be a memorable afternoon so I hope you can attend this free, educational and powerful program.

 

KC Jewish Chronicle Article

Follow the link to read an article featuring the Wyandotte County Historical Museum in the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle!

http://www.kcjc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=319:wyandotte-county-museum-to-host-exhibit&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=27