September 8, 2017
To the literati and officialdom of ancient China, tea represented “elegance, harmony, friendliness, and grace”. The act of tea drinking was a way in which one could “cultivate the mind and improve moral integrity” and it was admired as a drink that was pure of content and consisting of elegant...
August 24, 2017
In ancient times when technology was not yet advanced enough to help the human race understand the reasons for a solar eclipse, mythology was created to provide people with an explanation. For the ancient Greeks, the word itself, ‘eclipse', comes from the word for ‘abandonment’ as if the sun was literally...
August 9, 2017
Visiting a museum is always a great way to be entertained on any day of the week. There are so many interesting things to see, especially at the local favorite, Museum of World Treasures. This Saturday, August 12th, we have something extra special to entertain all of you lovely Wichitans...
August 3, 2017
In today’s world, the amount of media we have to entertain ourselves is endless. From cellphones to tablets to the big screen at the theater, it seems like we are never not looking at a screen. Well, can you imagine a time where one of the only forms of entertainment...
July 27, 2017
Have you ever been gifted with a chocolate bar falling from the sky? Probably not. Well, in the late 1940s, children in Berlin had the delight of receiving chocolate bars tied to parachutes made of handkerchiefs during the Berlin Airlift, all thanks to Colonel Gail Halvorsen aka, The Candy Bomber....
July 6, 2017
Every five years an organization known as Americans for the Arts commissions a study to be conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. This study is intended to evaluate the economic impact of nonprofit arts and cultural institutions across the United States and in specific markets, including Wichita, KS. The Arts...
June 22, 2017
Hello everyone, my name is Holly and I’m a collections volunteer here at the Museum of World Treasures. I help our curator, Steven King, research the artifacts. At the moment we’re in the process of researching the Museum’s collection of Egyptian artifacts and placing them in chronological order for a...
June 8, 2017
Museum folk like humor as much as the next person. To that end, we have developed a number of tips for museum visitation, all tongue-in-cheek of course and actually the antithesis of how you should act in a museum. But it’s fun! So, when visiting a Museum, it is...
June 1, 2017
Last June, Steven King, the Curator at the Museum of World Treasures, went on a research trip to study Ivan the Tyrannosaurus rex. Stops included the site where Ivan was excavated, the Museum of the Rockies and the Royal Tyrrell Museum to examine tyrannosaur material in their collections. The trip was...
December 12, 2016
December’s Coffee with the Curator, “A Christmas Empire: The Birth and Rise of the Nation with Charlmegane’s Surprise Coronation” will be presented by historian Austin Setter. The presentation will set the stage of the rise of the Carolingian dynasty in the early Middle Ages and the development of nations that...