KITES

Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibit Service

Searching for new and unique ways to enhance your lobby, classroom, festival, or special program?

The Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibits Service - KITES - may be just what you're looking for!

Schools, museums, libraries, arts councils, retirement homes, and others can benefit from KITES. Sponsored by the Kansas Historical Society, KITES offers attractive exhibits at minimal cost. (Please note that these exhibits can be booked for Kansas sites ONLY.)

Whether you have spacious walls or very little floor space, KITES can work for you!

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KITES exhibit

Booking a KITES exhibit is easy. Exhibits are usually booked for four-weeks, including shipping time. Two weeks advanced registration is required. To make a reservation, contact the KITES Program Scheduler at 785-272-8681, ext. 431, or click here to schedule online. Be sure to review the booking information and borrower's responsibilities before you reserve an exhibit.

Exhibit Format includes two different mounting system, free-standing and wall-hung. Please check the format listed for each exhibit to determine the type and be certain you can accommodate that type before you book the exhibit.

Cost is something we strive to keep to a minimum with the KITES program. As a borrower you will pay a $25 handling fee per exhibit. Each borrower is also responsible for transport of the exhibit from Topeka to your site and back. You may choose to pick up and return the exhibit to Topeka with no shipping cost. Alternately you may have the exhibit shipped to you and back through Price Truck Line. We arrange for shipping to you and will give you all necessary information for return shipping.

 

KITES Directory

  • Amelia Earhart: Taking Flight in Kansas
  • Barn Yesterday: Remembering Kansas Barns
  • Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds
  • Brown vs. Board of Education, In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality
  • Capturing the Times, Photographs of the Farm Security Administration
  • Continuing the Tradition: Mexican American Folk Art
  • Custom Cowboy Boots: The Kansas Story
  • Dust Bowl in Kansas
  • A Farm Farewell: Bittersweet Harvest
  • From Far Away Russia: Russian Germans in Kansas
  • Kansans of African Descent: Selected Portraits
  • Kansas and the Home Front
  • Kansas: Land of Literature
  • Kansas Tornado
  • Native American Folk Arts: Living Traditions
  • A Photographic Narrative: The Indians of Kansas
  • Reflections on the War: Women and Their Civil War Quilts
  • Southeast Asian Traditions from the Homelands
  • Those Who Came Before: Mexican Americans in Kansas 1900-1950
  • Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest
  • William Allen White: Sage of Emporia


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