Changing special exhibitions expand on and complement themes from Kauffman Museum’s permanent exhibition.
Previous Special Exhibition
Current Special Exhibition
Unlocking the Past: Immigrant Artifacts & the Stories They Tell
September 29, 2024-June 1, 2025
From the earliest days of the Radical Reformation, Anabaptists have been on the move–forced by persecution for their beliefs as well as chosen for new opportunities. Many items in the Kauffman Museum collections are reminders of these migrations and the reasons for seeking new homes. Unlocking the Past features artifacts donated to Kauffman Museum over the past decade that reveal stories about the people who carried them on their migration journeys.
Upcoming Special Exhibition
Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War
August 22, 2025 – May 24, 2026
Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War is a traveling exhibit that remembers the witness of peace-minded people against the First World War 1914-1918. This witness included men and women, religious believers and secular humanitarians, political protesters and sectarian separatists. They resisted U.S. involvement in the war, the enactment of military conscription, the war bond drives, and the denial of freedom of speech under the Espionage and Sedition Acts. For this resistance many suffered community humiliation, federal imprisonment, and mob violence at the hands of a war-crusading American public.
This exhibit lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protesters, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today.
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