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Wonderland Amusement Park on Ackerman Island in Wichita
Wonderland Amusement Park on Ackerman Island in Wichita, KS

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum will host a free screening of a documentary about Wichita’s first amusement park. And it wasn’t Joyland!

Here’s the description from the Museum’s event page:

A return engagement! Back by popular demand! The Historical Museum is proud to host For Your Amusement: The Wonderland Park on Ackerman Island, a mini-documentary about Wonderland Park (1906-1918), Wichita’s First Amusement Park, recently featured by the Tallgrass Film Association at the 16th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival. This documentary presented by the writer and director, Sara Harmon, in the Museum’s DeVore Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public!

The free screening will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 16. If you love history, or amusement parks, this would be a fun and FREE Saturday activity!

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