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Panel exhibit on Museum grounds
educates visitors

On Sunday, June 1, the Kansas City Museum introduced an outdoor exhibit installed on the grounds of the Museum. “The Long Family and Corinthian Hall” exhibit is a series of colorful and informative panels designed to educate visitors while Corinthian Hall is being restored.

The exhibit was introduced as part of the Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day activities. It will remain free and open to the public.

The long-term, temporary exhibit contains eight large, colorful panels, each containing descriptive accounts of the R.A. Long family history, their family home at Corinthian Hall, the historic Northeast Kansas City community, and the family’s legacy in industry and philanthropy.

“We want to interpretively enliven the whole estate,” says Museum Director Christopher Leitch. “We have so many visitors to the site who might not have heard the main building is currently closed for restoration. This exhibit allows visitors to learn about the Long family who built our historic home, as well as about the community of the Northeast.”

In addition to detailing the story of the Kansas City Museum, the panels feature postcards from Kansas City from the early 1900s.

Lively historical accounts on large colorful panels dot the grounds of the former Long family estate at Corinthian Hall. The series of panels will remain in place during the restoration of the Kansas City Museum.