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  • Book Signing: “The Spoils of Victory,” Daniel J. Markowitz

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Join us as Daniel Markowitz reads from his book The Spoils of Victory, the story of "a battle-hardened German POW and a devout Mennonite woman discover the contours of forgiveness and love in America’s heartland." The Spoils of Victory, Markowitz’ first novel and book one in the Prisoners of War series, focuses on a largely […]

  • Holiday Hours

    “Deutsche Weihnachtslieder/German Hymn Sing” – Drs. William Eash, Merle Schlabaugh and Karen Schlabaugh, professors emeritus, Bethel College

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Join us on Sunday, November 30 at 3 PM as we sing traditional Christmas hymns accompanied by the Museum's historic Teschemacher organ and led by former Bethel professors Bill Eash, Merle Schlabaugh and Karen Schlabaugh. The Deutsche Weihnachtslieder (German Hymn Sing) has become a favorite holiday tradition of late, and we hope you'll join us to sing along, or […]

  • “Songs of Protest: A Sampling of Music that Defies and Dissents,” Holly Swartzendruber, professor of vocal music, Bethel College

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    For millennia, people have utilized the arts to describe and comment on reality, as well as call for change. This lecture will examine the use of music as an expression of social protest for such issues as women’s suffrage/rights, antiracism, and antiwar. A variety of musical styles will be explored including: classical, jazz, folk, and […]

  • Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum – “Caught in the Middle Between Voices of Conscience and Voices of Patriotism,” Carolyn Zeisset, author

    At Home

    Author Carolyn Zeisset will explore the ambiguities of conscientious objection and religious exemption during World War I, and the added complexities of generational identities and socio-economic conditions during that time. Zeisset will also note parallels in her historical novel Caught in the Middle with the stories of conscientious objectors told in the traveling exhibit “Voices […]

  • Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “The Dockum Drugstore Sit-in,” Dr. Prisca Barnes-Simmons, founder, Storytime Village

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Kauffman Museum at Bethel College will host Dr. Prisca Barnes-Simmons for a presentation and discussion of “The Dockum Drugstore Sit-In,” on April 26 at 3 pm in the Kauffman Museum auditorium. Members of the community are invited to attend this free program! Contact director Andi Schmidt Andres at asa@bethelks.edu for more information. Prisca is a […]

  • Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum – “The Cost of Conscience: One Mennonite Family’s Experience in World War I,” Sara Judge Keckeisen, Kansas State Historical Society (retired)

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    When the United States entered World War I and instituted a military draft, and federal and state officialdom instituted heavy pressure to support the war effort, the homes, lives, and safety of members of the pacifist Mennonite communities in central Kansas, and of one family in particular, were put in extreme danger. This is the […]

  • Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: Unlocking the Past Mini-doc

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Come view the newly produced video production chronicling the Unlocking the Past: Immigrant Artifacts & the Stories They Tell exhibit. Exhibit curator and retired museum technician David Kreider and current collections manager Kristine Schmucker will be available to answer questions afterward.

  • Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: Nightberries Book Talk with Translator Brad A. Schmidt

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Elina Penner, the author of Nachtbeeren (Nightberries), was born in the Soviet Union in a Low-German Mennonite family but immigrated to Germany in 1991 at the age of four. Her debut novel deals with family and immigrant travails in a new homeland. Bradley Schmidt was born into a Mennonite family, grew up in the Goessel, Kansas, community, […]

  • Exhibit Opening – Piece / Work: The Art of Mary Lou Goertzen

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Kauffman Museum invites you to join us on August 30 at 3 p.m. as we celebrate the opening of our new special exhibit, Piece / Work: The Art of Mary Lou Goertzen, which takes as its focus an iconic Mennonite artist whose work spanned the deeply personal and broadly commercial. The opening will begin with […]

  • Kauffman Museum Association Annual Meeting and Student Presentation

    Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

    Join us on Sunday, September 20, 2026 for the Kauffman Museum annual meeting and presentation. Come for the museum updates, stay for an intriguing presentation by an emerging scholar: "Building Bethel: Before, Between, and Beyond" Bethel College sophomore history major Faith Peterson will present a snapshot of Bethel College in the 1930s through its buildings […]