Wyandotte County Historical Museum - Bonner Springs, Kansas

Wyandotte County Historical Museum

631 North 126th Street
Bonner Springs, Kansas 66012
(913) 573-5002

Monday - Saturday: 9 AM - 4 PM Free

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Wyandotte County Museum - Bonner Springs, Kansas

Wyandotte County Historical Museum - Bonner Springs, Kansas

The Wyandotte County Historical Museum near Kansas City, Kansas exhibits only a portion of the Historical Society's 75,000 artifacts. The small free museum can be toured in 30 minutes by all but those interested in the minutia of Wyandotte County, Kansas history.

Most of the exhibits are in two large galleries. One is mostly devoted to the Native american history of Wyandotte County. The other has displays for each township and some very interesting displays of attracts from the Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department. During my most recent visit to the museum, I found the exhibit about the WW2 bomber plant in Kansas City, Kansas and a temporary Victory Highway Traveling Exhibit of particular interest.

The Wyandotte County Historical Museum will be of particular interest to fire fighting enthusiasts.

Bell cast at Stuckstede Bell Foundry in St. Louis, Missouri
Bell from St. Casimir's Church in Kansas City, Kansas. Cast in 1920 at Stuckstede
Bell Foundry in St. Louis, Missouri.

B-25 Mitchel Bomber exhibit
North American Aviation produced B-25 bombers in Kansas City during World War 2

Dugout canoe found near the mouth of the Kaw (Kansas) River in the 1920s. Believed to be 200-300 years old.

Hopewell indian artifacts

Quindaro, Kansas - underground railroad
Display on Quindaro, Kansas - free town and stop on the underground railroad

fire cart and hand drawn hose reel
The 1915 fire cart at left came from the Edwardsville Volunteer Fire Department. The 1870s
hand drawn hose reel would have been pulled by 20 runners with 20 relief runners running beside.

Fire gnome sat atop Fire Station #8 at 16th and Garfield in Kansas City, Kansas

Barton P. Cohen at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum
Barton P. Cohen Research Library

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