Farm Family at the Lanesfield Historic Site

The Johnson County Museum offers innovative, engaging exhibitions and programs that inspire learners of all ages to discover a sense of place and spark excitement about history at two sites: Lanesfield Historic Site in Edgerton, Kansas, and the main museum in the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center in Overland Park.

The Museum offers long-term and changing exhibits, the children’s history experience KidScape, field trips, home school, youth and scout programs, summer camps, lectures, special events, birthday party packages, event spaces and a wide variety of online research tools. The museum’s historic collections include more than one million photographs, 20,000 3-D artifacts, and 300 cubic feet of archival material. In 2018, the Johnson County Museum served 70,000 visitors onsite and nearly 100,000 people through online resources.