Wichita State University - Lowell D Holmes Museum of Anthropology
Wichita State University - Lowell D Holmes Museum of Anthropology is a museum in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 396 m. Oil Hill stands 424 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Rocks Gallery, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 passes 129 miles off.
The story
The Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology began in 1966 as the Museum of Man, at the bequest and initiation of Dr. Lowell Holmes, Professor of Anthropology at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Over the next 33 years it grew slowly and became known throughout the campus as a small but interesting museum. The collections and exhibitions include cultural items from around the world and archaeological objects predominantly from the American Midwest and Southwest. In 1999, the anthropology department and the museum moved to a new location in Neff Hall. The museum was expanded and Mr. Jerry Martin was hired as Director. This was the first time that the museum had a professional director whose only job was to work with, and develop the museum. Martin's concept was to have the museum essentially run and operated by students as part of their museum studies training. He raised funds to hire student staff to run the day-to-day operations of the museum under his supervision. As of the fall semester of 2006, the museum had the funds to hire five student positions. The museum has a wide range of functions. It has exhibitions open to the public, houses a rapidly expanding collection, a support unit for the anthropology department and faculty of Wichita State University, a research facility for students, a repository for United States Government archaeological collections, and the basis for a growing museum studies program. These different functions provide a wide range of experience for the student staff.
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Dates from 1966.
Wikidata Q6693192, matched on coordinates and name (21 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 396 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 129.4 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fairmount Park: 0.3 mi
- Westmoreland Park: 0.6 mi
- Lynette Woodard Park: 0.6 mi
- Piatt Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
- Claude Lambe Park: 1.2 mi
- La Priere: 0.1 mi
- Figure (Archaean): 0.1 mi
- Reclining Figure: 0.1 mi
- Grand Tosrse D'homme: 0.1 mi
- Sodbuster: San Isidro: 0.1 mi
- Ulrich Museum of Art: 0.2 mi
- The Original Pizza Hut Museum: 0.4 mi
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Allen House: 1.9 mi
- Wichita Toy Train Museum: 2.8 mi
- Museum of World Treasures: 2.9 mi
- Rocks Gallery: 0.0 mi
- Display Gallery: 0.0 mi
- Display Gallery: 0.0 mi
- art gallery: 0.0 mi
- Gallery: 0.0 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 3.4 mi
- Vietnamese American Community Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Keeper of the Plains: 3.6 mi
- Kansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Final Call: 4.1 mi
- Hilltop Community Garden: 3.5 mi
- Mulvane Community Garden: 16.1 mi
- Bartlett Arboretum: 22.6 mi
- Restoring Roots Prairie Artscape: 24.3 mi
- Textron TAPD Outdoor Break Area: 9.2 mi
- Meadowlark Farm Picnic Site: 16.1 mi
- Swim Beach: 13.2 mi
- Swim Beach: 13.3 mi
- Annelly: 18.3 mi
- Plum Grove: 23.0 mi
- Oil Hill: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wichita State University - Lowell D Holmes Museum of Anthropology. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil Hill | ENE 70° | 424 m | 23.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:07 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:08 | 20:16 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:53 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:33 | 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 | 59 | 46 | 35 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wichita Colonel James Jabara A, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/366766031
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