Exhibits and Collections

Museum History

Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall is Kansas City’s oldest and largest museum of local and regional history. The Museum opened in 1940, located in the former home of Kansas City lumber entrepreneur and philanthropist Robert A. Long.

Community Curator Program

Discover artifacts from the Kansas City Museum through our Community Curator Program. The Community Curator program of Kansas City Museum invites historians and history educators to share their perspectives on artifacts they choose from the Museum collection. This provides fresh insight about artifacts and collections of Kansas City Museum and Union Station, and welcomes diverse input from the Kansas City history community.

Current Exhibits

The Museum collections are encyclopedic and represent major periods of the City’s development from the mid-19th century to the present day. Of particular interest are some of the original furnishings from the residence, and the carriages and tack, as well as hundreds of ribbons and trophies, of Mrs. Combs’ storied career in the horse show ring.

Exhibit Publications

During this period of renovation and construction at the site, the exhibition program at Kansas City Museum is adapting and changing. We are currently unable to utilize our exhibit galleries. Therefore, we are making our collection accessible to the public in a variety of ways – in print, on the web and through lectures and programs at the collection storage facility.

Nuestra Herencia (Our Heritage)

Nuestra Herencia collects, preserves and creates access to the documents and artifacts that record Kansas City’s Latino/a communities throughout the city’s history.

GLAMA (Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America)

GLAMA is a partnership between the Kansas City Museum and the LaBudde Special Collections of the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri - Kansas City to collect, preserve, and make accessible the documents and artifacts that reflect the history of the gay and lesbian community of the Kansas City region.

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
Learn about the Nazis’ attempt to eradicate homosexuality and terrorize German gay men into social conformity with arrests, convictions and incarcerations

Visiones del Arte Mexicano/Visions of Mexican Art

See 55 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs from some of Mexico’s greatest artists, including Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo and Graciela Iturbide.

Fashion in the Titanic Era

Explore Kansas City fashions during the Titanic Era

We Are Kansas City

The We Are Kansas City exhibition, presented in partnership with the America I Am exhibit at Union Station, aligned readily with the “Imprint” themes so beautifully explored in “America I Am.” Objects were selected from our collection for presentation because they are significant evidence of the broad and deep, bold and subtle imprints of African Americans on the history of Kansas City.

Every Bride A Princess

Learn about how bridal fashions changed over the 20th Century. Learn about eight bride and bridesmaid dresses and bridal portraits recently exhibited at Union Station.

Ride Through History

Take a rare look at our early 1900s Oscar J. Plummer motorcycle, which some experts believe to be the first motorcycle to ride the streets of Kansas City.