What is a community and who are the helpers? Play an active game and work together to solve puzzles as your class learns about the real people who help in Johnson County. Includes a kid-friendly tour of the signature exhibition "Becoming Johnson County" and exploration time in KidScape.
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.
My Community, History, Social Studies
75 students, 1 chap. per 25 stu.
120 min.
Field Trip
K, 1, 2
$7.00 per Person for School Group