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Old Cowtown Museum


TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #3 of 16 attractions in Wichita
Traveler Description:
Be transported back in time at this unique, 17 acre open-air living history museum which recreates Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1865 to...... more » Be transported back in time at this unique, 17 acre open-air living history museum which recreates Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1865 to 1880. Museum staff dress in period costume and demonstrate everyday activities including, gardening, tending livestock and cooking. « less
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Attraction type: History museum, Historic village
Activities: Dining
Address: 1871 Sim Park Drive Wichita, KS 67203
Tel: (316) 264-0671
Fax: (316) 264-2937

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4 of 5 stars
OkieOSUFamily   13 contributions
Oklahoma City
Aug 11, 2009

This museum consists of several original 1800's buildings transported to one location and you walk through them as if you're walking through an old ghost town. There is informative information in each building and they represent each imaginable building - general store, jail, saloon, school, church, meat market, grain elevator, etc. They also offer horse and buggy rides. more

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5 of 5 stars
Gill68   125 contributions
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct 4, 2008

We visited here mid week in late September so it wasn't terribly crowded which was nice. It's well sign posted and easy to find and we were able to purchase tickets very quickly and efficiently from a pleasant and helpful lady in the gift shop. We thought the layout and size of Old Cowtown was ideal - not huge but... more

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4 of 5 stars
frinton   1 contribution
Canterbury England
Dec 23, 2006
1
person found this review helpful

I was taken to Cowtown by friends who live in Wichita. They were rightly proud to show this wonderful museum to a visitor from the UK. The knowledge and enthusiasm shown by the people, all dressed in period clothes, at all of the houses and stores was wonderful, they really knew their stuff. I learnt quite a few new facts... more

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4 of 5 stars
hatlad   124 contributions
May 1, 2006
3
people found this review helpful

Old Cowtown Museum is an excellent museum for the area, etc. With its dirt streets, restored old buildings, displays of artifacts fo the period and - weekends only during the summer - the living history character actors, gives a really great look at life on the prairie back in the mid-to-late 1800s when Wichita was founded on the cattle trail.... more

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1 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
monument, colorado
Oct 6, 2005
1
person found this review helpful

I think the muesum stunk. I paid a lot of money and i was very diasapointed more

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5 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
Yukon, Oklahoma
Aug 31, 2004
5
people found this review helpful

I have been visiting the Cowtown Museum since I was a little boy living in Wichita. Now that I have moved away, I still go back often to visit Cowtown. The Museum has went through many transformations over the years, but now is top notch in every respect. This is a MUST SEE for anybody traveling through Wichita. It is... more

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Old Cowtown Museum Address

1871 Sim Park Drive, Wichita, KS 67203
Tel: (316) 264-0671 Fax: (316) 264-2937