Museum - Exhibits
Main Gallery - The Story of Kansas
The Kansas Museum of History opened in west Topeka in 1984 and closed for major renovations in September 2022. The previous exhibits told the story of our state's past highlighting native peoples, forts and trails, Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War, settlement, trains and towns, 20th century, fast food, and recent past. Be watching for updates on our progress to new exhibits. These are some of the highlights in our collection.
- 1880s Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe locomotive
- 1914 Longren biplane
- Abbott howitzer
- Angell plow
- Carry Nation's hammer
- Custer's boots
- Henry Brown's rifle
- White's printing press
Explore by theme:
- Early People
- Forts and Trails
- Civil War
- Settling the Frontier
- Trains and Towns
- Early 20th Century
- Fast Food
- African American History
- Kansas Families
- Recent Past
State Archives Gallery
Other exhibits
Upcoming Events
