by Nathan Bartel | Aug 20, 2026
Our Fall Fest 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...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 20, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | Jul 30, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | Jun 15, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | Jun 15, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | May 8, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | May 8, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | May 8, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | May 8, 2026
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...
by Nathan Bartel | Apr 15, 2026
Jason Schmidt will give a brief presentation on the lawn in front of Kauffman Museum on the use of goats to control volunteer trees and shrubs on Bethel College campus. Jason will also move his shrub-controlling goats into the woodland on KM grounds with the goal of...
