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The Community Curator program of Kansas City Museum invites historians and history educators to share their perspectives on artifacts they choose from the Museum collection. This provides fresh insight about artifacts and collections of Kansas City Museum and Union Station, and welcomes diverse input from the Kansas City history community. Community Curator lectures are presented the fourth Tuesday of each month at Union Station Kansas City, allowing the actual artifact to be presented with the observations of our Community Curator


Community Curator Lecture Series is the fourth Tuesday of every month, at 6 p.m.

 

September: Michael Bushnell, Northeast Kansas City historian and author

Historic Postcards of Kansas City

Tuesday, September 28

Explore Kansas City’s deeply rooted history through classic postcards at Kansas City Museum’s September Community Curator Lecture. Northeast Kansas City historian, author and publisher of the Northeast News, Michael Bushnell, will track Kansas City’s development into an urban metropolis through the Museum’s Postcard Collection.

 

Tuesday, September 28 | 6 p.m. | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, MO 64108 | (816) 483-8300 | Free

 

October: Michael Raynor, professor, Longview Community College

Loula Long Combs and the American Royal

Tuesday, October 26

Discover Loula Long Combs’ extraordinary history with the American Royal and her passion for horses! Your guide will be one of Mrs. Combs’ former employees, Dr. Michael Raynor, at Kansas City Museum’s October Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, October 26 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. You’ll see artifacts from the Museum’s extension Loula Long Combs Collection, and Dr. Raynor will explore Mrs. Combs’ life-long equestrienne achievements.

 

Tuesday, October 26| 6 p.m. | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, MO 64108 | (816) 483-8300 | Free


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Click here to view pictures from past Community Curator Lectures on our Flickr Page

 

 

Check out these other Community Curator lectures this year:


November 16: The Parties of Yester-year
Heather Paxton, The Independent

December 21: Toys in the Attic
Paul Mesner, The Paul Mesner Puppets, Inc.

 

 

 

 

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