Updated Saturday -January 28, 2012

•The Osa’s Ark Museum Shop will
offer 15% off all jewelry pieces
February 11^th through 14^th!

Click here to see just a few cool pieces!

•The Museum will host our annual 
Adventure Lovers Open House 
Saturday February 11th

The History Channel named our museum one of the 
Top Ten Places to Visit for Valentine's Day,
so bring your sweetheart on safari this weekend and enjoy 
a free day filled with movies and adventurous artifacts!

•New Collections

 
Honorary Trustees Dr. Pascal and Eleanor Imperato have gifted our museum 10 spectacular Mende Helmet Masks.  This donation brings our Mende mask collection to 35. The significance of these masks is profound as they are the last female masks danced traditionally in Africa.  The museum plans a Spring redesign of our Imperato African Hall to allow visitors to encounter and enjoy these vibrant art pieces during every visit.  Right now 3 of the new masks are on temporary display in the Selsor Art Gallery.

•Heartland Trails has named the Safari Museum one of the
Top 10 Museums in Kansas!
For the full list of winners, please click here!

•Get a signed copy of author Kelly Enright's thrilling new biography of 
Osa and Martin Johnson from our Osa's Ark Museum Shop today!

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•New Special Exhibition: 
Gems from the Collection
 

 Before written language, or the spoken word, there was jewelry.  More than just curio from the past, jewelry, like art, is a window into the soul of humanity.

Showing December to March

 

•New Acquisitions: The Elizabeth Main Le Blond Photographic Collection Forno Glacier, July 1889

The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum has received an unprecedented collection of over 2000 photographs and personal archives of Elizabeth Main Le Blond (1861-1934).  Le Blond was an author and mountain climber who is also in contention for the title of the world’s first female filmmaker.  Le Blond was climbing mountains in Victorian skirts and shooting her extraordinary photographs of stunningly scenic glacial landscapes before Ansel Adams was born, and she is credited with producing the very first sports films, covering the fields of hockey, tobogganing and bobsleighing.   The collection is being processed now and an exhibition of the photos will be announced at a future date.  Additional photos from this collection can be viewed here!

•SEPTEMBER 2011 WATER LEAK/FLOODING
& 
COLLECTION RESTORATION PROJECT Updates

On Sept 24th the Safari Museum suffered water damage and flooding from the Santa Fe Depot's third floor humidification system.  The first store-bought dress Osa ever owned, and the one that was purchased 100 years ago on her honeymoon with Martin Johnson, was damaged in this incident.  Molly Winder, a Chanute native and gifted seamstress, had been making fine repairs to the dress.  The plan had been that after Molly finished, the dress would be sent away for an archival cleaning and additional lace restoration.  The dress has undergone archival cleaning now and has been assessed sound enough for Molly to continue her restoration efforts. 

Molly Winder at work on Osa's dress in the museum's Henshall Archives
Photo Credit: Kathleen Carney and The Chanute Tribune

Funds for this initial restoration project and now for the cleaning of the artifact are provided by the interest from our museum endowment. Thank you to all the many donors and sponsors who have contributed to the operations of the museum to help us conserve the life story and legacy of Martin and Osa Johnson.  Also thank you to all the volunteers who helped move artifacts and books out of harms way during this water leak and the subsequent flooding that followed it.

•SAFARI MUSEUM HOURS
The museum's exhibitions and Osa's Ark Museum Shop are open to the public 7 days a week as follows:
Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, and 1 pm to 5 pm Sundays pm to 5 pm Sundays

•Osa's on Twitter... follow tweets from her diaries and letters here!

•Martin's on Twitter... follow tweets from his diaries and letters here!

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Martin and Osa Johnson are one of the 
"8 Wonders of Kansas"!

Thank you all for voting!

To see all the 8 Wonders "People" finalists, please  Click Here

 •Expedition Photographic Backtracing = SUCCESS!

The Photographic Backtracing 2010 expedition, lead by photographer and journalist Jan Svatoš left on August 5 to recreate some of Martin and Osa Johnson's most difficult photographic achievements.  Jan and his team photographed Africa in the difficult terrain of North Kenya using outdated analogue technology, including the classic film development process. To learn more about this amazing expedition check out  http://africaobscura.com  or their Facebook Fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/africaobscura.  

 An S-38 Sikorsky Amphibian "restored replica" of Martin and Osa Johnsons famous zebra striped S-38 “Flying Boat” and designed using photos of the original plane in the Safari Museum ’s archives has made aviation history!  

Here's a link to the website about this amazing plane and her historic trip! www.unlimitedadventure.com

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