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The Johnson County Museum invites members of the media and the public to review our press releases for recent announcements and upcoming events, programs and temporary exhibits. To learn more about any of the information contained in the following press releases, please contact the museum at 913-715-2550.

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Press Releases

Museum offers Pop 'N Play for young children, April 2008

StoryTime at the Museum for Pre-schoolers, April2008

Museum Receives Conservation Bookshelf grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services,  March 2008

Museum Co-Hosts 4th Annual Arts & Economic Development symposium, A National Museum & Policy Institute of Suburbia, March 2008

Coming of Age in Johnson County: 1960-1976  On exhibition at the Museum, November 10, 2007 - August 31, 2008

Museum honored with two prestigious 2007 Awards of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, July 2007

Johnson County Museum Publishes First Book on County History Since 1915, November 2006

Johnson County Launches JoCoHistory.net - Your Resource For Johnson County History, Launch date October 19, 2006

Museum Strategic Vision 2006-2011    Presented to Johnson County Board of Commissioners on June 1, 2006

Museum Receives $90,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, September 2004

 

PAST EXHIBITION & PROGRAM RELEASES

Made in Johnson County (exhibit 2007)

Inspired Threads: African American Quilts (2006 exhibit) 

Wild and Wacky Weather (2006 exhibit)                                                        

K is for Kansas (2005-2006 exhibit)

Greek Heritage in the Heartland (2005 exhibit)

To Protect & Serve: Law Enforcement in Johnson County (2005 exhibit)

South Park Elementary School Desegregation Case (2004 online exhibit; ongoing run)

Touching History: A Kid's Journey Through Time (2004 exhibit)         

"The 1950s House Celebrates It's Golden Jubilee" (March 22, 2004)

"Golden Jubilee Celebrated at The All-Electric House" (Follow-up from March 25, 2004)

Quilted Legacy: Patterns from the Kansas City Star (2004 exhibit)

Spirit of the Mask (2003 exhibit)

Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870 (2003 exhibit)

The Perfect Child (2002-2003 exhibit)                                              

"Johnson County Museums Throws Big Birthday Bash" (October 26, 2002)

Collecting A to Z (2002 exhibit)

As the Wood Turns (2002 exhibit)

Better Choose Me (2002 exhibit)

Cold War: Promise and Fear in the 1950s (2001 exhibit)

2001: A Quilt Odyssey (2001 exhibit)

Writing Across the Community (2000 Blue Valley NW student photo exhibit)

Something Old, Something New (2000 exhibit)

Viva La Raza (1999 exhibit)                                                                        

With Grace and Wit: The Paintings of Margot Peet, 1903-1995 (1999 exhibit)

On My Honor: A History of Boy Scouting (1999 exhibit)

Civil War Quilts (1998 exhibit)


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