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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!
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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
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.
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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