Now through June 30 –                    
"Believe it or Not: True Medical Stories from the Wichita Frontier"

This exhibit focuses on real medical case studies from early Wichita while highlighting medical tools and remedies of the late 19th century.  Stories include Dr. Fabrique shortening a shattered bone to save a man’s arm, a story of a young girls lip being sizzled because there was no dentist nearby, and the story of Nancy Rodgers who cut off her own cancerous breast.  

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Now through July 30–                       
"How the Garden Grows: The Original Organic Garden"

This exhibits includes tips and techniques from early garden manuals including a how to build an authentic 1876 “scare crow.”  Many of these tips are still of use to modern organic gardeners today.

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Ongoing–   
"Eagle Cornice Works"

This is a new semi-permanent exhibit on the museum grounds about the cornice /sheet metal industry.  Cowtown has done research on this topic, and no other museum in the United  States has a cornice works exhibit. 

A Cornice Works Shop was essentially a sheet metal shop that specialized in making window cornices and other sheet metal decorative façades.  Popular between 1880 and 1910, cornice works produced a variety of metal façade pieces to create ornamental storefronts and building details.  These metal façades replaced earlier more expensive and  labor intensive decoration which were made of stone, wood, or cast iron.  
            

Upcoming Exhibits:

July 1-December 1 –              
"Ice in Summer: Victorian 'Refrigeration' ”

August 1-December 1 –            
"The Votes Are In: Presidential Elections from Lincoln to Garfield"