Museum Event
Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum | “Decommissioned Missile Silo Sites: Reminders of Our Past and Future” by Nate Hofer
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesFollowing a short business meeting of the Kauffman Museum Association, World Peace Photo award winner Nate Hofer will discuss making photographs of decommissioned nuclear missile silos. Nate's project included finding […]
Annual Business Meeting
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesView the event recording.
Fall Festival | “The Oldest Books in the Museum’s Collection” by Mark Jantzen, Bethel College Professor of History
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesKauffman Museum owns a number of cuneiform tablets that are over 4,000 years old. These ancient writings provide insight into a culture that goes back to the very beginnings of […]
Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum | Ina Navazelskis from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Bethel College 300 E 27th, North Newton, KS, United StatesAt 4:00 in Krehbiel Auditorium in the Luyken Fine Arts Center on the Bethel College campus, Ina Navazelskis, an oral historian from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, […]
Living Endowment Dinner | “The Past in the Present” with Justina Neufeld and Janine Wedel
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesAt 5:30 at Kauffman Museum, please join us for the annual Living Endowment Dinner. We look forward to gathering in the museum building for a meal together after a two-year […]
Five Places of Christmas at Kauffman Museum
Newton-area museums welcome the public to “Five Places of Christmas” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3. The annual holiday open house is a collaborative event among […]
“Mennonite Peace Efforts under Communist Observation,” Pastor Bernhard Thiessen, Chairman, Peace Churches Office at the University of Hamburg, Berlin, Germany
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesIn the 1950s and 1960s, workers from Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section, the Puidoux Conferences, and the Christian Peace Conference organizations explored peace issues together in Europe. Their collaborative efforts […]
A Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Halstead-Newton Christmas Bird Count
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States
Faspa: Mennonite Charcuterie
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesOur Spring Celebration! Celebrate the coming of spring with a take-away Faspa meal. Mennonite communities have been sharing faspa, a light evening meal of bread, meat, jam, and cheese, for […]
Closing Reception: A Day with the Birds
Join us on Sunday, July 28, from 1:30-4:30 for a come-and-go closing reception for the current special exhibition A Day with the Birds: Community Science & the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Museum […]