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Heritage League of Greater Kansas City
Type: History
We are a consortium/network for hundreds of history and heritage organizations and museums. The League helps to cross-promote the interests and activities of its members; provide networking opportunit...
Historic Kansas City Foundation Walking Tours
Type: Tours & Sightseeing | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Dedicated to preserving historic buildings & neighborhoods in greater KC. Groups may schedule an hour-and-a-half walking tour of a historic area given by HKCF volunteers. Some of these tours are suita...
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The
Type: Art Museums | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The is a Visitor's Choice
You are invited to discover some of the 34,500 pieces in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. From ceramic objects found in ancient Chinese tombs to whimsical sculptures of badminton bir...
Harris House
Type: History | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
As Kansas City's oldest brick home,the 1855 Harris-Kearney House preserves the history of Westport and the Town of Kansas. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Harris-Kearney House ...
Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio State Historic Site
Type: History | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio State Historic Site has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
Home and studio of late artist features original furnishings and paintings. ...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Type: History | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Dedicated in 1986 to all Vietnam veterans. Includes a memorial wall of 336 KC-area Vietnam veterans killed or missing in action....
Community Christian Church
Type: Museums | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Frank Lloyd Wright designed this "church of the future." With a Steeple of Light, four spires projecting 60,000 watts of light into space. This technology didn't exist until 1993 when the church comp...
Battle of Westport
Type: History | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Many signs and placards commemorating some aspect of the Battle of Westport are present throughout Kansas City today. The main memorial for the battle is located in the Sunset Hill neighborhood just s...
Pioneer Park
Type: History | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
In addition to the heroic size bronze statuary group of the three "Pioneers" - Jim Bridger, Alexander Majors and John Calvin McCoy - there is a terrazzo map showing the three trails west during the m...
Hallmark Visitors Center
Type: Visitor Centers | Location: Crown Center Area
Hallmark Visitors Center has been rated 3 out of 5 stars
See one of the world's most creative companies come to life. Located in Kansas City's Crown Center complex, the Hallmark Visitors Center celebrates the Hallmark story in a display of 14 remarkable exh...
Union Cemetery
Type: History | Location: Crown Center Area
The city's oldest cemetery and last resting place for many Civil War soldiers and city founders, whose names reflect many of the city's streets and parks....
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
Type: Museums | Location: Crown Center Area
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
- National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial is a Visitor's Choice
- National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial has a Video
The National World War I Museum is an extraordinary emotional and educational experience which shares the history of a war whose impact still echoes today. With one of the greatest collections of Worl...
Union Station Kansas City
Type: Museums | Location: Crown Center Area
Union Station Kansas City has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
All aboard! Union Station is Kansas City's premier entertainment destination for family and cultural activities.
Discover the scientist inside you at Science City with over 50 hands-on science act...
Segway Experience of Kansas City
Type: Tours & Sightseeing | Location: Crown Center Area
Enjoy Segway guided tours in Kansas City! Visit us at our showroom inside Union Station and take your turn riding a Segway. Join us for one of our unique Segway tours discovering all that Kansas City ...
National Archives at Kansas City
Type: Libraries | Location: Crown Center Area
The National Archives at Kansas City is one of 14 facilities nationwide where the public has access to Federal archival records. It is home to more than 50,000 cubic feet of historical records. This i...
Gangster Tour
Type: Tour Guides | Location: Crown Center Area
Our Gangster Tour features an interactive look at the Pendergast era from 1920 to 1945. “Gangster TV” highlights this wild and wooly era with historical film and photographs from the period. You’ll ...
The City Market
Type: Farmer's Market & Specialty Foods | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
In operation since 1857, the City Market is the largest farmers’ market in the region with an annual attendance of nearly 600,000 per year and bursting with more than 170 farmer stalls. In addition, C...
Airline History Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Airline History Museum has been rated 3 out of 5 stars
The Airline History Museum is located at the historic Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, just north across the Broadway Bridge from downtown Kansas City, Missouri. To walk through it is to truly ste...
Museums at 18th & Vine
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Take a tour of two of the city's most celebrated museums at the 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District. The American Jazz Museum pays tribute to America's top jazz musicians. The Negro Leagues Baseball Mu...
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Type: History | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Visit Kansas City's first Episcopal Church for Sunday worship or a guided tour. St. Mary's entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Built in 1888, red brick, Victorian Gothic style wi...
Arabia Steamboat Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Arabia Steamboat Museum has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
The Arabia Steamboat Museum is home to a true time capsule of frontier life in the 1800s. The Arabia was headed up the Missouri River in the fall of 1856 when she struck a tree snag and sank just nort...
St. Patrick's Church
Type: History | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Established in 1869 for predominantly Irish community located east of Main after the Civil War. Oldest continuously operated church in KC. Mass at noon Sun. and holy days....
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
In 1833, a French missionary, Father Benedict Roux, arrived with instructions to form a permanent parish. At 11th and Broadway, the community built a log cabin church in 1835.
Father Bernard Donnell...
American Jazz Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
American Jazz Museum has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
The sights and sounds of a uniquely American art form come alive at the American Jazz Museum. The Museum includes interactive exhibits and educational programs as well as the Blue Room, a working jazz...
Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
Type: History | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Norman-Gothic downtown structure, seats 600, across from Convention Center. Reception hall seats 250 at dinner, up to 500 with theater seating. Facility available 8am-11pm, Mon.-Sat. Office open 9am-5...