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Kansas
Garden City
Finney County Kansas Historical Museum
403 South 4th Street
Garden City KS 57846
Phone 316 272-3364
Web Site http://www.finneycounty.org/history.asp
Description
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Local History
Collection N-Z Quilts
Research /Reading Library

Garnett
Anderson County Historical Museum
Sixth & US 59
Garnett KS 66032
Phone 785 448-5881
Web Site www.garnettks.net/attrac.htm
Description local displays & artifacts
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Local History
Owner/Operator: Anderson County Historical Society

Kansas
Goessel
Mennonite Heritage Museum
200 N Poplar Street
PO Box 231
Goessel KS 67053
Phone 316 367-8200
Web Site http://skyways.lib.us/museum/goessel
Description
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Religion
Group Identity Mennonite
Last changed: 08/30/2002

Goodland
High Plains Museum
1717 Cherry Ave
Goodland KS 67735
Phone 785 899-4595
Web Site http://www.goodlandnet.com/museum/
Alt Web http://skyways.lib.ks.us/museums/ - gG
Description first patented helicopter (1909) replica, dioramas, Depression, Dust Bowl exhibits, prehistoric tools, mammoths
Type of Resource Museum
Collection A-F Helicopter
Collection G-M Models
Owner/Operator: City of Goodland
New or Updated: 04/25/2003

  Kansas
  Great Bend
  Barton County Historical  Museum  & Village
  85 S US Highway 281
  Great Bend  KS   67530    
  Phone   620 793-5125
  Web Site  http://www.bartoncountymuseum.org/
  Description  10 buildings including school, church, blacksmith shop, depot, post office, house
  Type of Resource   Museum
  Primary Focus  Building Collection
  Collection A-F Dolls
  Group Identity   Native American
  New or Updated:  7/8/2005

Halstead
Halstead Historical Society
116 East 1st St
PO Box 88
Halstead KS 67056
Phone 316 835-2267
Web Site http://www.halsteadkansas.com/historical/
Description local history in two galleries of restored train depot, including Turkey Red Wheat, Mennonite heritage, Halstead Hospital
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Local History
Building Type Depot
Era 1917
New or Updated: 05/31/2003

  Hays

  Ellis County Historical Society

  100 West 7th St

  Hays  KS  67601    

  Phone   785 628-2624

  Web Site  http://www.elliscountyhistoricalmuseum.org/

  E-mail  mailto:historical@spidome.net

  Description  children's learning center, harness shop, replica Volga German Haus

  Type of Resource   Museum

  Primary Focus  Local History

  Building Type   Church

  Collection N-Z  Saddles

  Group Identity   German

  New or Updated:  11/24/2004

Kansas
Hays
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
3000 Sternberg Drive
Hays KS 67601
Phone 785 628-4206
Web Site www.fhsu.edu/sternberg
Description large fossil collection, dioramas, discovery room
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Natural History
Field of Study/Science Facility Paleontology