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Museum at Prairiefire

Dichroic glass (ultra-thin layers of different metals set in a vacuum) creates…

📍 Overland Park, Johnson County

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ART

Museum of Art + Light

If there’s even the slightest spark of art in your bones, step…

📍 Manhattan, Riley County

MILITARY

Museum of the Kansas National Guard

The story of the Kansas National Guard dating to the Civil War…

📍 Topeka, Shawnee County

MUSEUM

National Agricultural Center and Hall of…

High relief bronze panels depicting farm scenes are a memorial to farmers…

📍 Bonner Springs, Wyandotte County

MUSEUM

National Glass Museum

Collectors and novices will be thrilled by the brilliance of thousands of…

📍 Wellington, Sumner County

STATUE

Native American Statue

Just south of the parking lot and Barker Ave. and E. Indian…

📍 Lawrence, Douglas County

STAN HERD MURAL

Natoma Stan Herd Mural

Plains Indians are overlooking buffalo in a valley in this 1985 mural…

📍 Natoma, Osborne County

QUILT STORE

Needle in a Haystack

When you see the silo at the corner you'll have found the…

📍 Severy, Greenwood County

SECTION ART

Neodesha Post Office Art

Neodesha's First Inhabitants is the title of this 1938 Section artwork by…

📍 Neodesha, Wilson County

WALKING TRAILS

Neosho Riverwalk

The Neosho River crossing was one of the crossings on the Santa…

📍 Council Grove, Morris County

19TH-CENTURY CRAFTSMAN

Neosho Valley Woodworks

Patrick Haire has one of the most unique working setups in the…

📍 Humboldt, Allen County

STAN HERD MURAL

Ness City Stan Herd Mural

A Stan Herd mural in a community is always an honor. One…

📍 Ness City, Ness County

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