by kauffmanmuseum | Jul 7, 2020 | News
We are taking the following precautions to keep our visitors and staff members safe. Read through this outline of new protocols and procedures. During business hours staff and volunteers will wear masks in public areas and in the common workroom.Each day prior to 9:30...
by kauffmanmuseum | Jun 26, 2020 | Uncle Carl's Camp
June 22-26, 2020 This week at Uncle Carl’s Camp, campers explored turn-of-the-century quilts made on the Kansas prairie from the Kauffman Museum quilt collection. During this intergenerational experience, campers designed, pieced, quilted, and completed their...
by kauffmanmuseum | Jun 24, 2020 | Uncle Carl's Camp
June 8-12, 2020 Uncle Carl’s Camp “Behind the Mask” campers explored cultures that make masks and the ceremonies of those cultures. Through mask making, they learned about Native American traditions and the influence of the African culture on...
by kauffmanmuseum | Jun 3, 2020 | News
COVID-19 Reopening Protocol and Procedures During business hours staff and volunteers will wear masks in public areas and in the common workroom. Each day prior to 9:30 am opening, at 1:00 pm, and when visitors leave, front desk staff will sanitize and wipe down...
by kauffmanmuseum | Apr 14, 2020 | News
As seniors across the country scramble to complete final projects under extraordinary circumstances, Emma Girton and Elizabeth Friesen Birky face one of the bigger challenges. [Note: To see the complete Q&A with the student curators, scroll down.] As college...
by kauffmanmuseum | Mar 20, 2020 | News
In an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, Kauffman Museum is closed to visitors. The safety and health of our visitors, volunteers, staff members, and community are very important to us. Staff will be tending to other museum tasks on-site Tuesday – Friday...
by kauffmanmuseum | Jan 24, 2020 | News
Kauffman Museum’s annual Kansas Day celebration this year will explore Kansas symbols, from sunflowers to box turtles, bison to meadowlarks, honeybees to Kansa Indians. Celebrate Kansas Day activities are on the afternoon of Jan. 25. The museum, 2801 N Main St, North...
by kauffmanmuseum | Jan 10, 2020 | News
NORTH NEWTON – Andi Schmidt Andres has been named acting director of Bethel College’s Kauffman Museum. Previous director Michael Reinschmidt resigned effective Jan. 6. The museum board announced the appointment of Andres, curator of education, Jan. 28. She will serve...
by kauffmanmuseum | Dec 3, 2019 | News
Seniors Elizabeth Friesen Birky and Emma Girton accepted the award on behalf of the museum Nov. 8 at the Kansas Museums Association annual conference. The KMA has selected Kauffman Museum’s special exhibition “Campaign for a New China: Looking Back on Posters from the...
by kauffmanmuseum | Nov 26, 2019 | Events
Kauffman Museum hosted last Sunday’s Friends of the Mennonite Library and Archives program “Remembering the Vietnam Moratorium.” Ninety persons attended the open-mic time where people shared reminiscences of the 1969 Moratorium to End the War in...
