KITES

Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibit Service

Searching for new and unique ways to enhance your lobby, classroom, festival, or special program?

The Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibits Service - KITES - may be just what you're looking for!

Schools, museums, libraries, arts councils, retirement homes, and others can benefit from KITES. Sponsored by the Kansas Historical Society, KITES offers attractive exhibits at minimal cost. (Sorry, but booking of these exhibits is limited to Kansas sites.)

Whether you have spacious walls or very little floor space, KITES can work for you!

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KITES exhibit

Booking a KITES exhibit is simple. Exhibits may be booked for four-weeks, including shipping time. To make a reservation, contact the Program Scheduler at 785-272-8681, ext. 414. Be sure to review the booking information and borrower's responsibilities before you call.

Exhibit Formats include different mounting systems. Check the format listed for each exhibit to determine the type.

Educational Resources An exhibit is a wonderful opportunity to create special educational programs and events for your community or school. We make it easy by offering a package of exciting resources suitable for each exhibit and for all ages.

KITES Directory
  • Amelia Earhart: Taking Flight in Kansas
  • Arab Christians in the Heartland
  • Barn Yesterday: Remembering Kansas Barns
  • Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds
  • Brown vs. Board of Education, In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality
  • Capturing the Times, Photographs of the Farm Security Administration
  • Continuing the Tradition: Mexican American Folk Art
  • Custom Cowboy Boots: The Kansas Story
  • Driven By Vision: The Story of the Kansas Turnpike
  • Dust Bowl in Kansas
  • Exaggerated Kansas
  • A Farm Farewell: Bittersweet Harvest
  • From Far Away Russia: Russian Germans in Kansas
  • Greek Heritage in the Heartland
  • Homes Through the Years
  • Jefferson's America: Lewis and Clark and Western Exploration
  • Kansans of African Descent: Selected Portraits
  • Kansas and the Home Front
  • Kansas: Land of Literature
  • Kansas Tornado
  • Lewis and Clark in Kansas: "A High Butifull Prarie"
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Native American Folk Arts: Living Traditions
  • A Photographic Narrative: The Indians of Kansas
  • Power, Place, and People: African American and Indigenous Stories
  • Reflections on the War: Women and Their Civil War Quilts
  • Southeast Asian Traditions from the Homelands
  • Those Who Came Before: Mexican Americans in Kansas 1900-1950
  • The Tradition of Blues in Wichita: African Americans Tell Their Story
  • What Mother Did, I Did Too: Kansas Quilt Traditions
  • Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest
  • William Allen White: Sage of Emporia

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