Your preschoolers will love the stories and illustrations from long ago, read by a special guest from the 1950s All-Electric House! After the story, enjoy an art project for little hands and exploration time in KidScape.

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.

Students watch the story of Johnson County unfold, then work together to create a city of their dreams! Working in small groups, students choose a mayor and plan roads, buildings, landscapes, and special places. Includes a kid-friendly tour of the signature exhibition "Becoming Johnson County" and exploration time in KidScape.

Put on your white gloves and grab your clipboards! Use your observational and critical thinking skills as you evaluate a mystery object from the past. Includes a kid-friendly tour of the signature exhibition "Becoming Johnson County" and exploration time in KidScape.

Students experience a day in the life of a child attending a one-room school in 1904! In this fully immersive program, kids are encouraged to dress up and bring a lunch pail.

Students experience what it was like to be a child in 1904—from life on the farm and completing chores, to the challenges of lessons inside the one-room schoolhouse led by a costumed schoolteacher.

Students get a taste of what life was like for children attending a one-room school in 1904. In this fully immersive program, kids are encouraged to dress up.

The Johnson County Museum tells the long story of the place we now call Johnson County, Kansas. From the Kansa, Missouria, and Osage peoples to the “Bleeding Kansas” era; from the dairy farms to the suburban neighborhood developments; from segregated communities to an increasingly diverse population; from Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant to business parks and corporate headquarters: it is all in our “Becoming Johnson County” main exhibit! Can’t visit the museum right now? Watch this series of overview videos to get a sense of what you’ll see when you can make it in to explore the exhibits for yourself, and to better understand Johnson County’s history!

The Women and the Vote digital exhibit will explore the history of women and elections, voting, and elected positions in Johnson County, Kansas, and the nation. By highlighting over 170 years of women’s history in Kansas, the exhibit shows us where we have been. By exploring the role of women in elected position today, it informs us of the work left to be done. Exhibit highlights the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the League of Women Voters, and Kansas and Johnson County trailblazing women politicians.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v Board of Education desegregated schools across the country in 1954. But did you know that a Kansas Supreme Court case did the same in Johnson County, five years earlier? In 1948, the Webb Family sued to have their children attend a brand new school built in the South Park school district with taxpayer bonds but limited to attendance by white children. The family’s struggle for civil rights and equal educational opportunities for their children, the origins of the county’s first NAACP chapter, and the work of community advocates combine in the exhibit.

From Spanish explorers, to Mexican traders and laborers, to recent Central and South American immigrants, the Kansas City region has deep Latino history. Today, the Latino community is Johnson County’s fastest growing population.