See "Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life & Legends" at Union Station, Oct. 2-Jan. 10.
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"Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life & Legends"
Dates: Oct. 2, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, Bank of America Grand Gallery, 30 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
His Pop sensibility broke the traditional boundaries between art, business and life. "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," he proclaimed. As the exhibition proves, the "Prince of Pop" was a master at both art and business, ma...
Admission: $12 adults, $8 children 3-12, children 2 and under are free.
Type: Exhibits,Major Events
"Asian Influence on American Ceramics"
Dates: Jun. 9, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Capture the Moment: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs"
Dates: Nov. 21, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, 500 W Hwy. 24, Independence, Mo.
Of the millions of photographs seen in newspapers each year, only two Pulitzer photography prizes are given-one for spot or breaking news and the other for feature photography. Capture the Moment includes all of the winning images starting in 1942-t...
Admission: $8 for adults, $7 for seniors 65 and older, $3 for children ages 6-15, free for children 5 years and under
Type: Exhibits
"Celebrating 50 Fabulous Years with America's Favorite Doll"
Dates: Nov. 14, 2009-Dec. 31, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Toy & Miniature Museum, 5235 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Fashion diva, career girl, and friend, Barbie® defines girlhood like no other doll. Celebrate her 50th birthday with a look back at her early years and learn how she became an international icon!...
Admission: $6 adults, $5 seniors and students, $4 for children 5-12.
Type: Exhibits
"Chocolate:The Exhibition"
Dates: Oct. 16, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo.
Developed by The Field Museum in Chicago, this exhibit takes visitors on a delicious journey through the history of chocolate beginning in the rainforest with the cacao tree....
Admission: $9.50 adults, $7 children
Type: Exhibits,Major Events
"Christmas with the Trumans"
Dates: Nov. 15-Jan. 8 | Location: East | Venue: Harry S. Truman Home, 223 N Main St., Independence, Mo.
Exhibit includes toys, photographs, wrapping paper, Christmas cards and decorations which belonged to the Truman family. ...
Admission: Free
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Holiday Activities
"Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life"
Dates: Apr. 28-Nov. 8 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Ecstatic Resistance"
Dates: Nov. 13-16 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Grand Arts, 1819 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
A group show curated by Emily Roysdon. The exhibition and correspondent events include several commissioned works by Sharon Hayes, My Barbarian, Jeanine Oleson, A.L. Steiner, and will host performances and symposia by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Dean Spade ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Gary Cooper Oscar"
Dates: Sept. 1-Nov. 29 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Gary Cooper was the only person that Alvin York trusted to portray his story from the Great War. York insisted that if Cooper was not part of the movie he would not authorize the film. Cooper's 1941 portrayal of the World War I hero is considered on...
Admission: $4 - $8
Type: Exhibits
"Habitat"
Dates: Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 2, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Photographs ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood"
Dates: Sept. 26, 2009-Feb. 21, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Since photography's inception in 1839, children have been popular subjects for the camera. We look to pictures of children as collective memories of childhood itself-a phase of life to which we can never return. This exhibition explores our fascinat...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Major Events
"It’s Big: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives and Records Administration"
Dates: May 22, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: The National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
This exhibition will feature big documents, big events, big personalities, and big ideas from the region's history. Organized by the National Archives at Kansas City, "It's Big" features pieces of American history including: audio clips from the FB...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World"
Dates: Oct. 16, 2009-Feb. 19, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: American Jazz Museum, 1616 E 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
A photo exhibit featuring over 100 images of jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman as they traveled the world on behalf of the U.S. State Department. The photographs, which span the m...
Admission: Free
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Kansas-Nebraska Act"
Dates: Jul. 6, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act which examines the "Bleeding Kansas" era between 1854 and 1861 and the approach of the Civil War. The exhibit will feature the original Act, on loan from Washington, D.C. for a limited time.
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"KidScape"
Dates: Jan. 2, 2009-Jan. 2, 2011 | Location: West | Venue: Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, Kan.
Welcome to KidScape, the museum's newest hands-on exhibit for kids ages 3-9. Designed to look like a suburban streetscape, KidScape immerses children into a colorful, exciting environment where they can learn about community and meet some of Johnson...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Looking East"
Dates: Oct. 2, 2009-Jan. 1, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, 2020 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Featured artists include : Liu Hong, Sheng Qi, Yang Qian, Guo Wei, Gao Xiaowu, Huang Yan, Feng Zhengjie...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Looking West"
Dates: Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 2,2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
New Paintings of Land, Light, and Water...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Nativities From Around the World"
Dates: Nov. 14-Dec. 23 | Location: East | Venue: Community of Christ Temple, 201 W River Blvd., Independence, Mo.
Unique and handcrafted nativities and creches from around the world on display....
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Holiday Activities
"Puppets: Depression thru Recession"
Dates: Sept. 10, 2009-Jul. 31, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Puppetry Arts Institute, 11025 E Winner Rd, Independence, Mo.
Marionettes made by W.P.A artists working at the Nelson-Atkins museum from 1934 thru 1937. Ray Moore, Puppet Designer from TN marionettes and hand puppets and Needle-Felted puppets made by Pam Corcoran of WI....
Admission: $3. adults $1.50 under 16.
Type: Exhibits
"Reflections of Christ"
Dates: Sep. 1, 2009-Jan. 31, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Mormon Visitors Center, 937 W Walnut, Independence Mo.
Special collection of 27 pictures and photographs depicting the life of Jesus Christ.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace"
Dates: Sept. 1-Nov. 29 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St. Kansas City, Mo.
"Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace" presents Charles M. Schulz's lovable beagle, Snoopy, as his alter ego, the Flying Ace. The exhibit showcases 42 of Snoopy's most exciting adventures in his transformed doghouse - now a Sopwith Camel airplane - ...
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $4 students, children under 6 are free.
Type: Exhibits
"Starr Miniature Collection: The Fashionable Sitter"
Dates: Jun. 13, 2009-Jan.10, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Still Life: 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings"
Dates: Jun. 13, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum"
Dates: Sept. 1, 2009-Aug. 29, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St. Kansas City, Mo.
The color and drama of the Great War has been captured in "The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum." The exhibition is located in the National World War I Museum's Exhibit Hall, an original 1926 bui...
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $4 students, children under 6 are free.
Type: Exhibits
"The Long Family & Corinthian Hall"
Dates: Jan. 1- Dec. 31 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
The story of the Long family and their historic home, Corinthian Hall, is told in this informative exhibit, displayed on the grounds of the Museum. The free exhibit consists of eight panels detailing the Long family's involvement in historic Northea...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits