On May 24th we toured the Emergency Operations Center in Olathe as part of our Community Helpers series, which includes the police station and the fire station. The center is the heart of emergency preparedness in Johnson County. The employees…
Today we toured the police station and learned about how police officers help our community. We started our tour in the training room where our guide, Officer Castle, told us about all the different rooms that are used at the…
On November 18th we toured the recently remodeled National Toy and Miniature Museum. The museum has a wonderful collection of toys from the past through to recent times. Our tour began in the miniatures, which we learned are not toys,…
On the 9th we toured the latest exhibit at Prairie Fire Museum – The Horse. This exhibit explored the relationship between humans and horses, and how horses have had an impact on human history. The tour started with the kids…
On Wednesday the 4th we visited the Nelson-Atkins Museum for an American Indian art workshop. The kids toured the museum to view how American Indian cultures used color and pattern to communicate. Then we went to an art classroom so…
Today we attended the Science and Sculpture Tour, a cooperative tour hosted by the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. The tour is led by teen guides, and provides opportunities for the kids to connect art and…
All images courtesy of American Museum of Natural History. On Monday we visited Prairie Fire Museum for the new Dinosaurs exhibit. We began our tour in the Discovery Room, which is a huge favorite with the kids. The kids enjoyed…
If you have not had the chance to visit the visually stunning Prairie Fire Museum, the Discovery Room and the Mythical Creatures exhibition are a great reason to visit. The kids would have happily stayed in the Discovery Room for…
photo by Leslie R. Adams and courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum On Thursday the 6th we toured the Plains Indians exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. We saw some beautiful and amazingly detailed works created by Plains Indians artists – from…
The beautiful weather we were lucky to have last week held for our tour on Friday of the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center and the sculpture garden at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. We started our tour at the Discovery Center. The…
