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Photo Diary: Museum of World Treasures, Wichita KS [1]

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Date: 2023-09-13

This is a VERY nice museum in downtown Wichita. It has an amazing and widely-varied collection from every period of history, from the Paleozoic to the US Presidents. If it’s part of history, it’s probably in here somewhere. Alas, given its location in Kansas, I fear that it does not get the visitorship that it should. It’s like a mini-Smithsonian.

I can only give enough photos here to give some taste of what the collection is like—if I documented every part this diary would be a hundred photos long.

So here are just a small selection of photos from a visit.

For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit.

The museum

Inside the museum

Daspletosaurus and Edmontosaurus

“Logan” the Tylosaurus

Keichousaurus. Sort of a pint-sized plesiosaur.

Mioplosus fish that choked to death trying to eat a smaller Knightia fish

Statue of a Buddhist Naga, from the 14th or 15th century. The Naga are guardian serpents that protect holy places.

Ceremonial mask from the Chokwe people in central Africa

Water jug from the Chorrera people, about 500 BCE in Peru. It whistles when it is poured.

Part of a wooden Egyptian sarcophagus, around 1000 BCE, with hieroglyphics and a representation of the goddess Hathor

A Greek jug for mixing wine. Circa 350 BCE.

A jug from the Minoan culture in Crete, 1800 BCE

Votive figurine of the Canaanite god Baal

Roman mosaic

An Olduwan stone tool, roughly 2 million years old. It was once the pinnacle of human technology.

A Browning machine gun from World War One

A Kuban Kossack uniform from World War Two. The Kubans were Russians who fought on the Nazi side against Stalin.

Korean War flight helmets for MiG-15 and F-86 pilots

A “lobster-pot” helmet from the era of the English Civil War

Viking axe heads from around 900 CE

A criminal indictment from the American West, 1865, signed by Judge Isaac Parker—known as “The Hanging Judge”

General George Custer’s underwear. Really. US Army issue cold-weather underpants.

Assyrian cuneiform writing, 2375 BCE

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