Pawnee Indian Museum - Plan your visit
We invite you to visit Pawnee Indian Museum and discover more about this important place in Kansas history.
- Open mid-April to mid-October
- 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday
- 1 - 5 p.m. Sunday
- Free admission
- Closed: state holidays
- Portions ADA accessible. Please notify us prior to visit for special needs or disabilities.
- Requires two weeks prior notice with groups of 10 or more.
- Accompanying curriculum provided for teachers through Read Kansas! lesson plans: American Indian Homes in Kansas
- Group tours can still schedule ahead during the winter season.
- Offering specialized themes: American Indian Homes in the Central Plains, Nature, A Pawnee Means of Survival, and When Smoke Curled Upward from Earth Lodges, activities, or information not provided with single admission or self-guided group tour.
- 785-748-2205
- Site administrator
Nature trail
- View depressions of earth lodges of the Kitkahahki band who occupied this area in the late 1700s.
- The nature trail makes an excellent outdoor classroom and has picnic facilities.
Museum Store
- Find gifts and souvenirs related to the site at the Museum Store.
History of Pawnee Indian Museum
- Became a state site in 1899
- In Kansapedia
- In Kansas Memory
- National Register nomination, listed in 1971
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