| Name
|
Neighborhood
|
Type
|
Summary
|
| American Jazz Museum |
18th and Vine |
Music |
History of jazz music, located in the same building as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
|
| American Royal Museum |
Greater Downtown |
Agriculture |
Open by appointment, exhibits about horse and livestock shows, rodeos and agriculture
|
| Arabia Steamboat Museum |
River Market |
Museum ship |
Recovered mid-19th-century side wheeler steamboat and artifacts
|
| Battle of Westport Museum & Visitor Center |
South Kansas City |
History |
website, located in Swope Park, history of the Battle of Westport
|
| Belger Arts Center |
Crossroads |
Art |
Features a fine art collection and also holds exhibitions of art in various media
|
| Black Archives of Mid-America |
18th and Vine |
History |
website, features permanent exhibit about the story of African Americans in the Kansas City
|
| Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center |
East Side |
African American |
Legacy of Kansas City's early African-American pioneers, artistic, cultural and social history of the African-American experience
|
| College Basketball Experience |
Downtown |
Sports |
Includes the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, interactive history of men's college basketball in the United States
|
| Greenlease Art Gallery |
Plaza area |
Art |
Part of the Center for Arts and Letters at Rockhurst University[1]
|
| Hallmark Visitors Center |
Greater Downtown |
Commodity |
website, exhibits of historic Hallmark cards, ornaments, art, collectibles and Hallmark Cards company history
|
| Harris-Kearney House |
Westport |
Historic house |
Operated by the Westport Historical Society, mid 19th-century Greek revival house
|
| John Wornall House Museum |
Brookside |
Historic house |
Pre-Civil War era house
|
| Kansas Fire Brigade Museum |
Downtown |
Firefighting |
Located in a historic fire station[2]
|
| Kansas City Garment District Museum |
Downtown |
History |
Clothing, hats, photos of the period, period tools of the trade such as sewing machines, scissors and industrial fabric cutters
|
| Kansas City Irish Center |
Broadway Gillham |
Ethnic |
Irish and Irish-American community, culture, history, and heritage in the greater Kansas City area and region
|
| Kansas City Museum |
Northeast |
Multiple |
History, natural history, art
|
| Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art |
Southmoreland |
Art |
Works created after the 1913 Armory Show to works by present-day artists
|
| Missouri Quilt Museum
|
North
|
Quilting and Sewing
|
World's Largest Spool of thread, over 1000 toy sewing machines, antique treadles, quilt galleries, anything and everything sewing related. www.missouriquiltmuseum.com Located in Hamilton, MO
|
| The Money Museum |
Greater Downtown |
Numismatic |
Exhibits on the Federal Reserve, nation's financial system, coin collections; operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
|
| National Airline History Museum |
Northeast |
Aviation |
Located at the Kansas City Downtown Airport, history of commercial aviation
|
| National Museum of Toys and Miniatures |
Plaza area |
Toy |
Classic toys and fine-scale miniatures (formerly the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City)
|
| National World War I Museum and Memorial |
Greater Downtown |
History |
World War I artifacts in interactive displays
|
| Negro Leagues Baseball Museum |
18th and Vine |
Sports |
History of the Negro leagues, located in the same building as the American Jazz Museum
|
| Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art |
Southmoreland |
Art |
Collections include European paintings, Asian art, American paintings and photography
|
| Science City at Union Station |
Greater Downtown |
Science |
Over 120 hands-on science exhibits, planetarium
|
| Shoal Creek Living History Museum |
Northland |
Living |
website, 19th-century Missouri life, over eighteen buildings and log cabins dated from the 1800s relocated from surrounding counties to create a small village setting, on 80 areas in Hodge Park
|
| The Ginger House Museum
|
East
|
History
|
website, Birthplace of famed actress/dancer Ginger Rogers, restored to 1911 period [closed since 2019]
|
| Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site |
Midtown-Westport |
Biographical |
Home and studio of artist Thomas Hart Benton
|
| Trailside Center |
South Kansas City |
History |
Exhibits memorabilia from the Battle of Westport and the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails.
|
| United Federation of Doll Clubs Museum |
Northeast |
Doll |
website, antique, vintage, and modern, play and artist dolls
|
