The Spirit of Wichita

“The Spirit of Wichita” examines our local history during the early 20th Century, from 1912 to 1939. This long-term exhibit explores the aircraft industry, the oil industry, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the World War I, the period’s cultural arts, entertainment and technology. Capture the spirit of Wichita through

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Fred Wassall- Midwestern Mystic

On display through April 2019: The art of Fred Wassall is the focus of a new exhibit at the Historical Museum in the Lois Kay Walls Gallery.  Born in Birmingham, England in 1904, Wassall studied at the Brighton School of Art before immigrating to the United States in 1926, settling in

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Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives

A traveling exhibition on view:  June 16 – August 11, 2018 Created by the Museum of the City of New York and adapted to tour for NEH on the Road by Mid-America Arts Alliance.  Visitors to the exhibition will experience a Riis presentation–immersive life-size photographs, as well as artifacts and personal documentation.

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