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Baldwin's Art Gallery

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Mourning Coach

After weeks of correspondence and coordination, a couple from Arkansas donated a ...

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Hair Art

With death e...

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Cabinet Cards

Each year, Old Cowto...

​Marshall Murdock 

Doing research for a future project, I read a 201...

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Money Collection

One of the many permanent exhibits at Old...

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DAR and the Munger House

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Committees

 Committee work is an important part of the job for any curator. These committee...

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Museum Loans Process

There are many reasons museums participate in a loan proc...

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Carpent...

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Originally known as Elgin and then West Wichita, Delano is the neighborhood located directly west of downtown Wichita on the west side of the Ar...

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One underutilized asset at Old Cowtown Museum is our research library.  The library is open to re...

          Whether cre...

Accepting donations is a very important part of being a museum curator. It helps the museum’s collection grow, so we can then showcase more items to the...

Museums need to keep a proper inventory of its collections. So one major job of a museum curator is inventory control. This means keeping proper counts ...

Written by Keith Wondra

In 1984, Old Cowtown Museum received a large donation from Margaret L. Garrett. Her family tradition held that many of the...

By Keith Wondra

In the first part of an ongoing history of Old Cowtown Museum's historic buildings this blog entry covers the General Store. This ...

​Old Cowtown Museum continues to add items to its collection every year. The latest additions to our collection are wooden roller skates.

Roller s...

To celebrate the founding of Old Cowtown Museum, a new temporary exhibit explores the 70 year history of our great museum. To do this, the curatorial de...