SUMNER COUNTY MUSEUMS

ARGONIA AND WESTERN SUMNER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
221 West Garfield
Argonia, Kansas 67004
316-435-6990 or 435-6606

Library/archives/museum collections: Salter Museum: 1884 home of America's first woman mayor, Susanna Medora Salter, miscellaneous Salter family artifacts, and community culture.

Hours: by appointment.

CHISHOLM TRAIL MUSEUM
502 North Washington Avenue
Wellington, Kansas 67152
316-326-3820

Library/archives/museum collections: Columbian mammoth skull (in Sumner County Courthouse), domestic life of pioneer Sumner County, family history, cattle trails, prehistoric artifacts, and period rooms.

Hours: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Sunday (summer), variable during winter.

MILAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Milan, Kansas 67105
316-435-6632 or 435-6423

Library/archives/museum collections: Park House Museum, Main Street: local history and original Milan artifacts.

Hours: by appointment.

MULVANE ART MUSEUM
17th and Jewell
Topeka, Kansas 66621 913-231-1010, Ext. 1324

Library/archives/museum collections: nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, seventeenth - twentieth- century European prints, eighteenth -nineteenth-century Japanese fine and decorative arts, contemporary Mountain- Plains regional painting, prints, sculpture and ceramics, and traveling exhibits.

Hours: variable.

MULVANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
300 West Main
P.O. Box 117
Mulvane, Kansas 67110

SUMNER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
P.O. Box 213
Mulvane, Kansas 67110
316-777-1434

Library/archives/museum collections: Library/archives, Chisholm Trail Museum, 502 North Washington, Wellington: newspaper clippings and publications. Yearly membership is $2.00, lifetime membership is $15.00.

Hours: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Sunday.

SUMNER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
P.O. Box 402
Wellington, Kansas 67152

Brand New! Yearly membership is $5.00. Newsletter ("Heritage Harvester");  web page in the works.