Wichita Art Museum
Wichita Art Museum is a museum in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 396 m. The nearest named place is South Riverside Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 130 miles off.
The story
The Wichita Art Museum (also known as WAM) is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas. Exclusively focused on American art, its collection comprises over 12,000 items, a selection of which is displayed across 31,500 sq. ft. (2,900 m²) of galleries. The museum was established in 1915, when Louise Caldwell Murdock's will created a trust to start the Roland P. Murdock Collection of art in memory of her husband. The first museum building, designed by New York architect Clarence Stein, opened in 1935 with art borrowed from other institutions, as the first work in the Murdock Collection was only purchased in 1939. Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas, a friend of Louise Murdock's, selected and purchased works for the collection until 1962. A foundation was established two years later for the purpose of raising funds for new acquisitions. The museum building was enlarged with a new lobby and two new wings designed by Robert J. Schaefer in 1963, before the city commissioned architect Edward Larrabee Barnes to design a new and larger climate controlled facility, completed in 1977. In 2003, the museum inaugurated another expansion, which expanded the total area of the museum to 115,000 sq. ft. (10,700 m²). Tera Hedrick, an art historian and Wichita East High School graduate, was hired as curator in 2017 after serving in an interim role. In January 2020, the museum announced that it would begin renovation on its main entrance and lobby, which was completed that year.
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Dates from 1915.
Wikidata Q7998113, matched on coordinates and name (7 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 396 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 130.0 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Named places within 25 miles
- South Riverside Park: 0.3 mi
- Millwood Park: 0.3 mi
- Central Riverside Park: 0.5 mi
- West Side Athletic Park: 0.5 mi
- North Riverside Park: 0.6 mi
- The Night Sky: 1.5 mi
- 99 Words and Phraises Coined by Shakespeare: 1.5 mi
- Strength Through the Spirit of Growth: 1.8 mi
- Plains of Creativity and Kindness is Magic: 1.8 mi
- Love Anyway: 1.9 mi
- Indian Center Museum: 0.3 mi
- Old Cowtown Museum: 0.3 mi
- Exploration Place - Science and Discovery Center: 0.6 mi
- Kansas African American Museum: 0.9 mi
- Kansas African American Museum: 0.9 mi
- The Wichita Botanica Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Slawson Family Asian Big Cat Trek: 3.3 mi
- Reticulated Giraffe: 3.3 mi
- The Downing Gorilla Forest: 3.3 mi
- Cessna Penguin Cove: 3.4 mi
- Keeper of the Plains: 0.4 mi
- Vietnamese American Community Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Final Call: 2.1 mi
- Kansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Hilltop Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Mulvane Community Garden: 15.7 mi
- Bartlett Arboretum: 21.3 mi
- Swim Beach: 16.6 mi
- Swim Beach: 16.7 mi
- Swim Beach: 23.5 mi
- Textron TAPD Outdoor Break Area: 5.5 mi
- Meadowlark Farm Picnic Site: 18.4 mi
- Annelly: 20.9 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:07 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:09 | 20:16 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:53 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:34 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 66 | 76 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 58 | 46 | 35 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wichita WX, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/366765999
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