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Take Off to Lake Paradise! It's time for the Annual Safari Museum GALA.

Plan to join us for a fun casual evening June 9, 2012.



Click here to download and print a reservation form.
Click here to download a map.


Opening April 1, 2012

Around the World in EIGHTY Maps






Around the World in Eighty Maps:
The Forgotten Worlds of Phileas Fogg and Martin and Osa Johnson
(with some temporal digressions from the actual travels)
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 12:00pm until Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 5:00pm


Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps is very excited to announce a forthcoming map exhibition and Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum fund raiser. As part of their 10th annual film festival, which this year will feature the Michael Todd 1957 version of Around the World in 80 Days, we will be developing a cartographic exhibition of the many lands visited by Phileas Fogg, and by Martin and Osa Johnson in their travels around the world. The exhibition will feature 80 different maps roughly following the journeys of each, as well as cartographic variations spanning five centuries.

The exhibition will open April 1, 2012, and remain on display through May 31, 2012. Special events are planned around the exhibition, so please check www.safarimuseum.com for updates. You may email museum staff at osajohns@safarimuseum.com if you wish to be put on their event e-notification list.

All of the maps in this exhibition are original. They will all be for sale and there will be additional original maps available in the Osa’s Ark Museum Shop during the show. Fifty percent of the sale price of each map will go directly to the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum to help cover the cost of the museum’s operation and maintenance of its collections. This will be a great opportunity for supporters of the museum to make a contribution and have an authentic piece of history to take home with them. Each map will be described as to actual condition, source, and cartobibliographic details. Shipping arrangements can be made for an additional nominal fee. To purchase one of these maps call (620)431-2730. If you do not have space for a map that you like, you can purchase it at a discount (half price) and gift it to the Safari Museum where it will be kept in the collections to be used in other special exhibits. To see a list of the maps on exhibit, click here.



Photographic Exhibition Premiere

MARTIN AND OSA JOHNSON –
 THE ORIGIN OF CINEMATIC AFRICA

A photographic exhibition of the pioneering documentary films made by Chanute’s own Martin and Osa Johnson will premiere March 15th in the Czech Republic.  The exhibition will open at the American Center of the US Embassy in Prague and is designed to travel around Czech centers at foreign embassies, including those in New York and Los Angeles

For more information about the exhibit opening click here.

 


New Collections

 
Honorary Trustees Dr. Pascal and Eleanor Imperato have gifted our museum 10 spectacular Mende Women's 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.  Some of the masks are now on exhibit in the Imperato 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!








COLLECTION RESTORATION PROJECT Update

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

The museum closes early on New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve, and is closed on New Year's Day, Easter, Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

 

 

70 JOHNSON PHOTOS from MARRIED to ADVENTURE, our Traveling  Exhibition are available for purchase here!

 

 

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


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


 

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

 

 

Martin and Osa's films on YOUTUBE
Want a Sneak Peak at some of Martin and Osa's most famous films?  
Click on the poster below to watch film excerpts on Youtube:

 

These films and more can be purchased in our  Osa's Ark Museum Shop  

 

SAFARI DVD SET!

 


  • 6 DVD SAFARI FILM SET! Just $44.95
  •  DVD Format, Zone Free, Available

  • 4 Johnson films (SIMBA CONGORILLA BABOONA I MARRIED ADVENTURE) plus a bonus of 2 more early African Films in one collection SET!.
  • $44.95 
  • CLICK Browse to preview or buy!


 

 

 

 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.  

Prepare for Africa, which you haven't seen before! 
Preview the trailer of this documentary coming out this May here
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvChZhmLA9s

Osa’s Ark's  Historic Transatlantic Flight!

 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




SPIRIT OF BORNEO:  The first Photobook dedicated to the life and legacy of Martin and Osa Johnson was launched at a grand affair in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia on October 19, 2009!

 

Details about our partnership on this historic book and updates on many other Safari Museum heritage and conservation projects in Bornean Malaysia will be in the next Wait-A-Bit news and thereafter posted online so keep checking back here!

 

Spirit of Borneo Book Launch, October 19, 2009 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia

 

SAFARI in SANDAKAN
A new Martin and Osa Johnson 
Exhibition Open in Sabah, Malaysia!
 


 


The Safari Continues!  To read about a new exhibition that we and our sister museum, The Sabah Museum, designed to honor the wildlife achievements of Martin and Osa Johnson and see how you can help keep the adventure alive, please click here.  



BOOK MAKES OSA A COVERGIRL!

Women Travelers


Osa Johnson graces the cover of yet another book...and her amazing life story is told inside!  

Check the Safari Store in the Featured Item Section for more details on this amazing new book!   

 •Johnson Movie Posters Now Available!
 

 •Johnson Feature Films on DVD!

 
 
Six of Martin and Osa's films are now available through our Osa's Ark Museum Store in both NSTC (US & Canada) and PAL (Britain & UK) formats.  We have just added ACROSS THE WORLD WITH MR. and MRS. JOHNSON and also an amazing bonus DVD that includes interviews with Robert "DICK" Douglas, one of the three Boyscouts who accompanied Martin and Osa Johnson to Africa and star in ACROSS THE WORLD.  Please check the Safari Store for more details and to purchase your own copies!   

 

Seeking Adventure? Sign-up Here Today ! 
  
Volunteers play a vital role at this unique non-profit historical and multicultural education organization!   Applications for volunteers are available year-round at the museum front desk or via
email for tour guides, outreach docents, library volunteers, office and archival assistants.
 We have immediate openings for Front Desk Greeters and Museum Store Sales Clerks.
Men and women of all ages and backgrounds who enjoy working with the general public—both children and adults—are encouraged to apply.


 

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