June 13, 2016
Origin of Father’s Day In July of 1908, a church in West Virginia held a special Sunday sermon which was the nation’s first event honoring fathers. The sermon was in memory of 362 men that died due to a nearby coal mine explosion. The following year, a woman named Sonora...
June 6, 2016
It’s Riverfest this week here in Wichita! Riverfest started last Friday, June 3rd, with the annual kick-off parade and fireworks. The festival concludes this year on Saturday, June 11th. As always, there’s no shortage of fun activities for festival attendees of all ages! For the adults, this week they have...
May 30, 2016
First, we would like to extend a thank you to all persons who have served or are currently serving in the armed forces. We sincerely thank you for your service. We invite you to visit the Museum of World Treasures and step into the shoes of these heroes. Our military...
May 23, 2016
The Museum Gets a New Direction and a New Dinosaur A lot of the changes that took place in the Museum Of World Treasures (MOWT) up to 2005 were the addition of new artifacts, new exhibits, and the cooperation of new collectors. 2005 marked the beginning of new leadership...
May 9, 2016
The Museum of World Treasures was founded on January 12, 2001. Even though it’s one of the youngest museums in Wichita, or Kansas, for that matter, the Museum of World Treasures, or MOWT for short, has gone through a lot of changes. It has been in two buildings, changed its name...
April 25, 2016
Thirty-Three Years Later. . . On this day in 1983, the Soviet Union released a letter that then-General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Yuri Andropov had written to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader. Widely suspected to be an attempt to demonstrate the 'softer side' of the Soviet Union and negate...
April 18, 2016
Today's blog post will be a little different; there will be a bit of breaking down of the "Fourth Wall," if you will. Our Staff Christmas picture. Don't we look cold?! (I'm the rebel on the right with two hair colors.) Hi! My name is Jordan Page and I...
March 28, 2016
Diana Stanley is a Museum employee who studied abroad in Europe. She occasionally updates the blog with knowledge she gained while she traveled and explored. The city of Bremen in Germany is a whimsical, good-humored city of the North. While it looks old, much of it is new--reconstructed after...
March 21, 2016
Tim Howard, Curator of Exhibits and Research, is currently conducting research in Prague and Budapest. He will be updating the blog as a Field Reporter while he travels and explores. Well, it has truly been a trip through time. In Prague, I was transported to another place and time by the...
March 21, 2016
Steven King, Curator of Collections Guests have asked before about controversial aspects of the Museum. We asked our Curator of Collections, Steven King, what he thinks would be most controversial about the artifacts in the Museum. Some of the more controversial things we have in the Museum...