Happy anniversary to KWCH Channel 12. According to its website, KWCH was the first television station in Kansas and began broadcasting 60 years ago on July 1, 1953.
To celebrate this milestone, local station is having a Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 29, 2013 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with 60% off admission at many Kansas museums. You’ll also get to meet your favorite on-air personalities and enter to win a gift basket at each participating location. (Who is your favorite Channel 12 personality? I can’t decide!)
Below is a list of participating museums from the KWCH website. Click any of the links below to go to the KWCH site and see more information about that museum:
- Boot Hill Museum – Dodge City
- Mid-American All-Indian Center – Wichita
- Old Cowtown Museum – Wichita
- Great Plains Transportation Museum – Wichita
- Harvey County Historical Museum – Newton
- Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum – Wichita
- Chrysler Boyhood Home & Museum – Ellis
- Kansas Oil Museum – El Dorado
- Sedgwick County Zoo – Wichita
- Kansas Aviation Museum – Wichita
- Mid-America Air Museum – Liberal
- Hedrick’s Zoo – Nickerson
- Kansas Cosmosphere – Hutchinson
- Eisenhower Museum – Abilene
- Kansas African Museum – Wichita
The following museums are also participating in Family Fun Days with KWCH 12 and are free year round:
- Smoky Hill Museum – Salina
- Great Plains Nature Center – Wichita
- Wichita Arts Center – Wichita
- Salina Arts Center – Salina
- National Glass Museum – Wellington
- Wichita Center for the Arts – Wichita
- Cowley County Historical Society Museum – Winfield
- Lee Richardson Zoo – Garden City
- Dodge City Zoo – Dodge City
- Mulvane Historical Museum – Mulvane
- Ulrich Museum of Art – Wichita
- David Taylor Zoo – Emporia
Thanks to Kristina for letting me know about this event!
