Guided tours

What better place to learn about Kansas history than where it occurred? Tours require a minimum of 10 participants and two weeks prior notice. Confirmation will be made by email or by phone.

Tour prices range from $1 to $15.

Kansas Museum of History, Topeka

Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War (7th-8th grade)
Indian Homes in Kansas (1st grade)
Lucy Goes to Oregon (Pre-K to 2nd grade)
Museum Gallery Highlights (4th grade-adult)
Oregon or Bust! (4th grade)
Risk Takers and Pizza Makers (4th grade)
Rural School Days (1st-6th grade, one hour tour)
Rural School Days (4th-5th grade, four hour activity)
Wagons, Wheels, and Wings (2nd grade)
Westward Ho! (4th grade)
Wichita: People of the Grass Lodge (1st grade)

Kansas State Capitol, Topeka

State Archives, Topeka

Constitution Hall, Lecompton

Meet Kansas Territorial Characters (7th-8th grade)

Fort Hays, Hays

Button Boards and Glass Grenades: Military Oddities of the 1800s (6th-adult)
Grating, Grinding and Shaving: Antique Kitchen Gadgets (primary grades)
From Reveille to Taps: Bugle Calls at Fort Hays (all ages)
Victorian Secrets: What Women Wore in the 1880s (7th grade-adult)

Goodnow House, Manhattan

Grinter Place, Kansas City

Early Settlers, River Trade, and Prairie Life (3rd grade and above)

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Hanover

Wagons Ho! for the Oregon-California Trail (4th grade)

John Brown Museum, Osawatomie

Kaw Mission, Council Grove

American Indian Homes in Kansas (1st grade)

Mine Creek Battlefield, Pleasanton