Mark your calendars to enjoy Free Museum Day in Wichita again this year, compliments of Smithsonian magazine.
You and one other person in your family can get FREE admission to participating area museums on Saturday, September 21, 2019, when you request your free tickets at the Smithsonian website.
This is one of my favorite events of the year and – fun fact – my first post ever here at Wichita on the Cheap was about Smithsonian Magazine’s Free Museum Day (in September 2009).
Smithsonian Magazine has continued this annual event, and every year I try to use my free tickets to visit a museum I haven’t been to before or haven’t visited for a long time. My first-ever visit to Cowtown was on Free Museum Day one year.
Kansas has quite a few participating museums each year, and some of them not cheap if you’re buying tickets for a large family. Others are already pretty affordable, but with two free tickets for your family it’s even better!
Although admission is FREE, you DO need a ticket. There’s a limit of one ticket per household – each ticket is valid for up to two people.
Related: Free Museum Days and Museum Discounts in Wichita
Your biggest problem will be choosing which museum to visit, since so many of them in our area participate each year.
And if you’re going out of town – or even out of the state – that weekend, find a museum to visit for FREE during your trip.
Museum Day is a national promotion, so there are participating museums throughout the United States.
Participating Museums in Kansas
So far for 2019, we don’t yet know which Wichita museums are participating. Here are several which have participated in the past. They’re all great. Please note: you must have tickets to get free admission on Museum Day.
- Kansas Cosmosphere
- Museum of World Treasures
- Wichita Art Museum (always free on Saturday)
- Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
- The Kansas African-American Museum (noon to 4 p.m.)
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These are the other Kansas museums that have participated in Free Museum Day previously:
Abilene
- Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home
Baldwin City
- Quayle Bible Collection (free every day)
Council Grove
- Kaw Mission State Historic Site (free every day)
Emporia
- Red Rocks State Historic Site
Gardner
- Gardner Historical Museum
Great Bend
- Barton County Historical Society Museum and Village
Hanover
- Hollenberg Pony Express Station State Historic Site
Hays
- Fort Hays State Historic Site
Hutchinson
- Cosmosphere
Kansas City (KS side)
- Grinter Place State Historic Site
Leavenworth
- C.W. Parker Carousel Museum (free every day)
Lecompton
- Constitution Hall State Historic Site
Liberal
- Mid-America Air Museum
Lucas
- Grassroots Art Center
Manhattan
- Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art (free every day)
McPherson
- McPherson Museum, 1111 E. Kansas Ave.
Meade
- Meade County Historical Museum (free every day)
Olathe
- Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture (free every day)
Overland Park
- Johnson County Museum
Pleasanton
- Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site
Republic
- Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site
Tonganoxie
- Tonganoxie Community Historical Society & Museum (free every day)
Topeka
- Kansas Museum of History
Holly says
August 29, 2015 at 1:55 AMGreetings Carolyn!
I appreciate you and all you do all of the information with this email every week!!!!
Thank you bunches and take care!
Holly. 😉
Carolyn says
August 30, 2015 at 3:59 PMHolly, thanks so much for taking the time to say this! I appreciate you too!!