Imperato West African Gallery Guide

IMPERATO WEST AFRICAN GALLERY Welcome!  We are honored to share one of the finest collections of West African Art in the US with you.  First off as a bit of trivia, not one artifact in this gallery was collected by Martin + Osa Johnson; they helped pioneer the ideology “Take a Picture, Leave Only Footsteps.” …

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Upcoming Adventures

Upcoming Adventures Stored Treasures Special Exhibit: Open Now Through March! The heart of any museum is its collection. 90% of a museum’s core collection is kept in storage due to a lack of permanent display space & for their conservation. This exhibition highlights some of the most stunning, unusual & rarely viewed examples of beaded…

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Film Poster and Book Cover Art

Film Poster & Book Cover Art  Collection Watch Films By & About Martin + Osa Here Take a peek at our Pop Culture Collections Produced by Hollywood studios & literary agents to fill theatre seats & stock book shelves around the world, this gallery is a curated selection of images from the museum’s vast graphic…

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Meet Martin and Osa Johnson

Meet Martin and Osa Johnson   From 1917 to 1936, Martin and Osa Johnson set up camp in some of the most remote areas of the world and provided an unmatched photographic record of the wildernesses of Kenya, the Congo, British North Borneo and the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands. Their equipment was the most…

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Discover

Collections at the Core Discover Artifacts that drive our mission JOHNSON VISUAL HISTORY COLLECTION In the first half of the 20th century, a couple from Kansas named Martin and Osa Johnson captured the public’s imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, far-away lands. Photographers, explorers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied…

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Visit

Visit All You Need to Know for your Safari to Chanute OPEN HOURS PLAN YOUR SAFARI: “Centrally located between Los Angeles and New York,” the museum is also just 2 hours from Kansas City, Wichita, and Tulsa. Whether coming in from distant ports or just across town, we always recommend you check in with the…

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Learn

Cultural Adventures on Safari Make Learning a Lifelong Adventure! TRAVEL TRUNKS Bring global adventures to your classroom with the Safari Museum Education initiative! Cultural based, hands on Artifact Travel Trunks may be loaned for up to 2 weeks, and the charge is $100.00 plus the cost of  shipping (for current museum members, there is no…

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