Enjoy these special exhibits on display at local museums this year.
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"Bridging the Gender Divide" runs from July 15, 2020 through Sept. 5, 2021.
Bridging the Gender Divide: Toys that Build STEM Skills National Museum of Toys and Miniatures thru Sept. 5, 2021. Admission charged; ticket info: at toyandminiaturemuseum.org/visit/tickets/.
About the exhibit: From chemistry to construction, toys have prepared generations of kids to pursue careers in STEM fields. Bridging the Gender Divide also features engaging interactive elements, including an HO-scale working model train, arcade station and a matching game coloring book highlighting accomplishments by women in STEM over the past 200 years.
Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. Union Station, opening June 14, 2021. Admission charged; UnionStation.org.
About the exhibit: Featuring more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs, the exhibition allows visitors to experience artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, including hundreds of personal items—such as suitcases, eyeglasses and shoes—that belonged to victims and survivors of Auschwitz.
Paul McCobb: America’s Designer Johnson County Museum, May 22, 2021-January 7, 2022. Free with museum admission; jcprd.com/330/Museum/.
About the exhibit: Paul McCobb designed mid-century modern furniture and furnishings for post-war America that sold in department stores across the country. With objects pulled from a local collection, this groundbreaking exhibit explores the most famous American designer you didn’t know you knew.
Claude Monet’s Waterlily paintings.
Monet Water Lilies: From Dawn to Dusk Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art thru Jan. 23, 2022. Free admission; Nelson-Atkins.org.
About the exhibit: This exhibition will present the painting with a 10-minute light program that emulates the rise and fall of daylight and plays every quarter-hour. It will be accompanied by nature sounds from Monet’s garden in Giverny. The exhibition also features a short video of Monet painting in his garden at the outbreak of World War I.
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Johnson County Museum staff, 2020
Johnson County Museum
Featuring award-winning long-term and changing exhibitions as well as public and school education programs, the Museum is a great place to spend the day learning about our county’s history and having fun in our hands-on exhibit spaces.
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National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
Explore the world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one of the nation's largest collections of antique toys. Journey through centuries of childhood, culture, and industry in the toy galleries.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is Kansas City’s favorite free attraction, as voted by readers of KC Parent Magazine! Discover masterpieces in the galleries, spend quality time together at a festival or drop in for a weekend art activity. Classes...
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Union Station
A place for great adventure. Where Kansas City Connects. All of these phrases – and more – are regularly used to describe Union Station. Visitors of all ages, from all places and for all reasons tie Union Station to special and magical moments.
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