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  • Uncle Carl’s Camp 2026 – Exploring Printmaking II

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

    June 29-July 3, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | Age: 9 to 12 (Completed Grade 3-6) Campers will explore printmaking through the work of Kansas printmakers. Drawing from observation, students will use nature as the subject of their works. Exploring Printmaking 2 will give campers a unique inside glimpse into how an artist turns inspiration into art. […]

  • First Saturday Bird Walk

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

    Our First Saturday Bird Walks depart from the kiosk in the museum parking lot for a mile-and-a-half hike through Chisholm Park and along Sand Creek Trail. Be prepared for some unpaved/steep terrain and summer weather. Binoculars and a bird book are recommended but not required. Children accompanied by an adult are welcome but should be […]

  • Uncle Carl’s Camp 2026 – Beginning Sewing

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

    July 6-10, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | Age: 9 to 11 (Completed Grade 3-5) Have you ever wanted to learn how to sew? You will learn some basic sewing skills and make a few projects to take home. Projects will be completed as time allows and may include a pillow case, drawstring bag, and a small […]

  • Uncle Carl’s Camp 2026 – Intermediate Sewing

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

    July 6-10, 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | Age: 11 to 14 (Completed Grade 5-8 or above) Campers will make projects a bit more advanced than the beginning class. Projects will be determined based on sewing skill levels of the campers. Projects may include a drawstring shoe bag, small snap bag, pillow case and backpack. All sewing […]

  • 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.

  • First Saturday Bird Walk

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

    Our First Saturday Bird Walks depart from the kiosk in the museum parking lot for a mile-and-a-half hike through Chisholm Park and along Sand Creek Trail. Be prepared for some unpaved/steep terrain and summer weather. Binoculars and a bird book are recommended but not required. Children accompanied by an adult are welcome but should be […]

  • 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 […]

  • First Saturday Bird Walk

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

    Our First Saturday Bird Walks depart from the kiosk in the museum parking lot for a mile-and-a-half hike through Chisholm Park and along Sand Creek Trail. Be prepared for some unpaved/steep terrain and summer weather. Binoculars and a bird book are recommended but not required. Children accompanied by an adult are welcome but should be […]

  • 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 […]