Artists in the Field

Traveling Exhibits ~ Artists in the Field Nature, in all its color and life, has fascinated people throughout history. At no time was this enchantment expressed more beautifully in art than during the 18th and 19th centuries, an era of extensive curiosity about natural history. As explorers swept across the globe, they sparked an international…

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Safari Staff Job Opportunities

Safari Staff Job Opportunities DIRECTOR – JOB DESCRIPTION MARTIN AND OSA JOHNSON SAFARI MUSEUM About us: The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum is a nonprofit organization founded in 1961 and is located in the historic train depot in Chanute, Kansas. Over 5,000 visitors a year tour the world class exhibits of the Johnsons stunning…

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Research Project Galleries

Research Project Galleries See 20,000 Photos from Martin + Osa’s Expeditions Here Watch Films By & About Martin + Osa Here explore Photos curated for your research project South Seas 1917 South Seas 1919 North Borneo 1920 North Borneo 1935 Not the images you were after?  We have digitized all 20K of the Johnsons expedition…

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A Safari Museum in Kansas?

A Safari Museum in Kansas? A museum about world explorations tucked away in America’s heartland doesn’t make much sense unless you know who Martin and Osa Johnson were…and where they were from. Here are two short intros about Martin + Osa Johnson’s amazing legacy that we conserve and carry on at the museum dedicated to…

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Married to Adventure

MARRIED TO ADVENTURE Traveling Exhibition MARRIED TO ADVENTURE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE TRAVELS OF 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…

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