Coronado Quivira Museum

105 West Lyon Street
Lyons, Kansas 67554
(620) 257-3941

Tuesday through Friday: 9AM to 5PM
Saturday: 9AM to 2PM

Adults $3.00    Children 5-12 $2.00
Rice County Residents Free

Coronado Quivira Museum Map

Stone corral known as Camp Grierson
Coronado Quivira Museum - Lyons, Kansas
Coronado Quivira Museum - Lyons, Kansas

The Coronado Quivira Museum in Lyons, Kansas is a very nice little museum with well designed and labeled exhibits. The museum is operated by the Rice County Historical society, which began collecting artifacts in 1927. 

The museum has excellent displays devoted to Coronado's expedition and from the Quivira and other Native Americans who made Rice County home. Other exhibits include locally made or used tools, medical technologies and other general historical collections, clothing and textiles, photographs, and an extensive archival collection of books, scrapbooks, correspondence and other records.  I was particularly interested in the exhibits related to early Native American culture in Kansas.

The Coronado Quivira Museum formerly offered unique tours of Rice County historic sites from mid May to mid October. We have been informed that those have been discontinued.

Quiviran Culture Exhibit - Coronado Quivira Museum
Quiviran Culture Exhibit

Serpent Intaglio exhibit
The Serpent Intaglio was dug by  Indians sometime around 1200-1300 A.D. and is approximately 160'. long

Native American petroglyphs - Coronado Quivira Museum
Native American petroglyphs in Rice County

Shirley Knight and Mary Astor exhibit
From Rice County to Hollywood: Shirley Knight and Mary Astor (temporary exhibit in February 2012)

Coronado Quivira Museum
Basement exhibits

advertising curtain - Coronado Quivira Museum
This small stage advertising curtain is one of the best preserved in Kansas

Coronado Quivira Museum Map - Lyons, Kansas
Coronado Quivira Museum Map

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