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  • 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 […]

  • 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 fall weather. Binoculars and a bird book are recommended but not required. Children accompanied by an adult are welcome but should be […]

  • FALL FEST 2026: Teschemacher Organ Recital

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

    We will celebrate the artistic expression of women in both composition and making music as Rosi Penner Kaufman and Donna Ratzlaff Hetrick continue the legacy of the Deknatel sisters through music on this beautiful organ.

  • FALL FEST 2026: “A Tactile Cogitation,” Karen Reimer, BC ’82

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

    Karen Reimer, BC class of 1982, will give a talk about her art practice, which uses the labor-intensive craft techniques of embroidery and quilting to explore patterns in the natural world and in human cognition.

  • Living Endowment Dinner 2026: “Quilts in the Great Depression and New Deal,” Dr. Janneken Smucker, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

    Dyck Arboretum of the Plains 177 W Hickory St, Hesston, KS, United States

    You are cordially invited to support the 40th annual Living Endowment Dinner benefitting Kauffman Museum. Dyck Arboretum of the Plains, 177 W Hickory, Hesston, KS Janneken Smucker will share research from A New Deal for Quilts (International Quilt Museum with University of Nebraska Press, and winner of the 2023 New Deal Book Award), exploring the ways Depression-era […]