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Old Cowtown Museum

  • November 28, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by meadowlark from Boston, Massachusetts
Old Cowtown Museum

Cowtown is an open-air museum that introduces visitors to life in Wichita from 1860s-1880s. Original buildings have been moved from sites around Wichita and the wider Kansas area to give visitors insight to shops (including a barbershop, carpenters, blacksmith, drug store, general store, and funeral home) and home life with the recent addition of an entire farm complete with animals. Children and adults alike will enjoy the demonstrations, riding out to the farm in a covered wagon, and trying their own hand at printing, carpentry, grain grinding, and more. When we were there this fall, they were doing Victorian dancing in costume and at the end some of the audience members (including my dad and I) got to join in. It was very fun (and challenging).

As with most places in Wichita there is loads of parking. Because the museum is outdoors it is only open from Mar 31-Oct 31; however, if you are in Wichita in December there are usually some Christmas special days which include an old-fashioned church service.

Tickets to the park are $7 for adults. Also annual family memberships are also inexpensive. The visitors center has been recently moved to a new building on the other side of the park with a nice common area where dinner concerts with the former Prairie Wranglers Music group are held. This is a first-class trio who single old-cowboy songs and are quite worth the hefty ticket price of $30. The offical website is http://www.old-cowtown.org/.

From journal What to Do Around Wichita

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Old Cowtown Living History Museum

  • October 15, 2000
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Casual Tourist from Enterprise, Kansas
Old Cowtown Living History Museum

Old Cowtown Living History Museum is what a living history museum should be. It's set up much like an old-time town and there are real people dressed in period dress acting as guides and/or simply filling up the town. There were a couple dozen stores, houses, and business establishments to walk through and tour.

We spent about three hours walking through the town and viewing the sights there.

One tip to keep in mind -- you can reduce the price you pay to get in by going to www.old-cowtown.org and printing the coupon for $2.00 off each admission. Presenting this printout allowed my husband and I to enter for $5.00 each, a significant savings.

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