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2025 Exhibits

Sounds of the Nation: An American Music History

April 2 - June 28, 2025

Starting with indigenous folk music and all the way to the modern pop, rock, and hip-hop artists of today, visitors will be able to experience a taste of vibrant and ever-changing American music throughout its history. Follow the movements, artists, and tools that have created the sounds of the nation.

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Inherently Unequal: Segregated Education in Missouri

July 9 - August 30, 2025

Black Missourians too often found it difficult to access education in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This exhibit reminds us of the obstacles they faced, and the dignity and diligence with which many Black citizens sought to educate themselves in a system of inherently unequal schools.

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Mourning in the Victorian Era

September 3 - November 1, 2025

Queen Victoria defined mourning traditions throughout the Western World in the nineteenth after the death of her husband, Prince Albert. Follow the changes how people grieved, what it meant to process death in the Victorian Era, and the ways these changing trends shaped our modern world.

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Holiday Toys

November 5- December 6, 2025

Closing out the season annually, the museum offers a short display on vintage toys from the past. Just in time for the holidays, this exhibit featured a unique variety of antique dolls, wind-up toys, games, and activity toys on loan from local collectors.

 

Past Exhibits

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Holiday Toys
November 6 - December 7, 2024
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Boston Cooking School Cookbook: The Exhibit
August 7 - November 2, 2024
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Immigration: An American Story
July 10 - August 3, 2024
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Beauty: A Modern Revolution
April 3 - June 29. 2024
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Holiday Toys
November 1 - December 9, 2023
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Living Sovereignty: Sustaining Indigenous Autonomy in "Indian Territory" Kansas
August 30 - October 28, 2023
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Plains, Terrians, and Landscape Change
July 12 - August 26, 2023
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Simple Living in Complex Times: Home Life in the 1930s
April 5 - July 1, 2023
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Holiday Toys
November 2 - December 10, 2022
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Atkins-Johnson Through the Eyes of Young Artist
August 3 - October 22, 2022
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The Age of Progressive Reform, Creating Modern America from 1900-1917
July 6 - July 30, 2022
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Clay County Bicentennial: The Exhibit
April 6 - June 25, 2022
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Holiday Toys
November 3 - December 11, 2021
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A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History
August 4 - October 23, 2021
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Freedom: A History of Us
July 7 - July 31, 2021
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Missouri Bicentennial: Celebrating 200 years of Missouri History
April 7 - June 26, 2021
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Votes for Women
August 5 - December 12, 2020
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Little Bee, Big Deal: Honey Bees and Their Amazing World
June 3 - July 25, 2020
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Holiday Toys
November 6 - December 14, 2019
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All Hallows Eve: Halloween History and Symbolism
September 4, November 2, 2019
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Big Shoal: Church, Cemetery, Community
April 10 - August 24, 2019
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Holiday Toys
October 31 - December 8, 2018
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Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny Real and Imagined
September 5 - October 20, 2018
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Parlor Games: American Families at Play
July 5 - August 25, 2018
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Still Beauty: Scenes From An American Farm
April 11 - June 23, 2018
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Apron Strings: Ties to the Past
September 6 - October 21, 2017
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Clay County Cooking
June 7 - August 26, 2017
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Over Here: America's at Home During WWI
April 5 - May 20, 2017
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Holiday Toy
November 30 - December 17
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The Many Faces of George Washington
November 2 - November 19, 2016
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Drawn to Fashion: 100 Years of Clothing in Print
July 20 - October 22, 2016
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Archaeology: What's Under the Farm?
April 6 - July 9, 2016
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Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collection of the Missouri State Archives
September 30 - December 12, 2015
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America's Fairs: Educating Communites
July 29 - September 12, 2015
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Good Manners: Everyday Etiquette Past and Present
May 27 - July 18, 2015
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Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times
April 15 - May 9, 2015
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A Shadow Over the Earth: The Life and Death of Passenger Pigeon
September 24 - December 13, 2014
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Life of a Reenactor
May 28 - September 6, 2014
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Victorian Love Tokens
February 14 - May 10, 2014
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Holiday Toys
December 4-14, 2013
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Homestead Act 150th Anniversary
September 7 - November 23, 2013
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Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors
April 27 - August 31, 2013

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Gladstone, MO 64119

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Gladstone, MO 64118

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7010 N Holmes Street

Gladstone, MO 64118

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