April 15, 2015
Diana Stanley is a Museum Volunteer studying abroad in Europe until June. She's writing as a Field Reporter while she travels. She recently explored Germany. Follow our blog to receive her updates throughout the coming months. By Diana Stanley, Field Reporter When traveling across the great expanse of America, travelers...
April 10, 2015
Diana Stanley is a Museum Volunteer studying abroad in Europe until June. She's writing as a Field Reporter while she travels. Her mother went to visit and they explored Germany, the place of their ancestors. Follow our blog to receive her updates throughout the coming months. By Diana Stanley, Field...
March 13, 2015
Are you ready? Our annual Week of Heroes event starts Monday, March 16! This year the event is bigger and better than ever. Check out the daily schedule below to plan your visit. Visit the Museum Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 20, 2015 for an opportunity to meet a wide variety of...
February 24, 2015
Diana Stanley is a Museum Volunteer studying abroad in Europe until June. She's writing as a Field Reporter while she travels. Follow our blog to receive her updates throughout the coming months. By Diana Stanley, Field Reporter Many people celebrated Marti Gras last Tuesday. Most Catholics and Protestants in the...
February 6, 2015
Diana Stanley is a Museum Volunteer studying abroad in Europe until June. She's writing as a Field Reporter while she travels. Follow our blog to receive her updates throughout the coming months. By Diana Stanley, Field Reporter On Saturday, I headed into Birmingham’s city center for the cheap market of...
February 3, 2015
Beginning this February, the Museum will roll out a new schedule for monthly educational programs. Favorites such as Coffee with the Curator and Discovery Days will stay, but Treasure Tales will be replaced with a new and improved program for preschoolers called “Pre-K Passport.” Pre-K Passport will make its debut at 10:30 a.m. on Monday,...
February 3, 2015
The Museum hosted its first Murder at the Museum event last November in partnership with the Wichita Public Library’s Big Read program. It was a huge success and tickets sold out within two weeks of going on sale. To accommodate the demand for these unique adult programs, the Museum will...
February 3, 2015
Sending an email miles away is a piece of cake in this day and age, but the written word experienced many radical changes and developments to get to this point. Over the course of five thousand years, changes in written language and how individuals wrote messages changed how human beings...
January 26, 2015
Diana Stanley is a Museum Volunteer studying abroad in Europe until June. She's writing as a Field Reporter while she travels. Follow our blog to receive her updates throughout the coming months. By Diana Stanley, Field Reporter The poet Robert Browning once said, “Everyone sooner or late comes round by...
January 22, 2015
Do you enjoy military or World War I history? This weekend is your last chance to see Dawn of the Great War: A WWI Centennial Commemoration. Museum staff will take the current exhibit off display on Wednesday, January 28 to make room for Transcribing History: Pictographs, Parchment, and the Printing Press. ...