Northwest Region

American Royal Museum & Visitors Center - See the significance of agriculture in the history of Kansas City. Visit the beginnings of the American Royal. Observe horse shows, rodeo and livestock show clothing, saddles and memorabilia. See how your weight compares with chickens, market hogs and feeder steers. Visit the reading corner, play computer games, learn about livestock judging and have a great time.

Children's Museum of Kansas City - Hands-on activities offer fun learning experiences. Explore a museum that invites kids to ""Touch everything!"" Exhibits are designed to stimulate the imagination and creativity of children ages two through eight and encourage all-age family interaction.

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - The new Negro Leagues Baseball Museum features a 10,000 square-foot multi-media exhibit including two film exhibits, two video exhibits, and 15 computer interactive stations. The gallery is arranged on a time line of African American and baseball history from the 1860s-1950s.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Rich collections bring together masterpieces from every culture and period of the world, from ancient times to the present day. Free tours of sculpture inside the Museum are available for youth groups and are led by teen guides.

The Coterie Theatre - Kansas City's professional theatre for youth and family audiences.

Airline History Museum - The museum contains a collection of photographs, artifacts, printed material, and audio/visual displays that will bring you the true flavor of an age gone by. Uniforms, galley items, instrumentation, logbooks, personal mementoes, and so much more to bring to life the propeller-driven era.

Kansas City Zoo - The Zoo features over 200 acres of animal fun as well as the first IMAX Theatre in a Zoo. Embark on a safari through Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Uganda and the Congolese Forest.

Conception Abbey - Benedictine monastery founded in 1873. See The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, a Romanesque basilica housing a rare example of Beuronese murals.

Pony Express Historical Association - This association maintains two historical museums. The Patee House Museum served as the Pony Express Headquarters from 1860 to 1861. The Jesse James Home Museum contains a number of items owned by Jesse James with a new exhibit on the 1995 exhumation of the infamous outlaw, including coffin handles, bits of wood, and a pin Jesse James wore in his death photo.

Pony Express Museum - Historic stables where Pony Express began in 1860, restored as museum illustrating need, operation and end of famed mail service.

American Jazz Museum - Inside the American Jazz Museum, the essence and living spirit of jazz legends fill the atmosphere as the story of jazz and her greatest performers is told through the sights and sound of one the most interactive museums in the country.

Kansas City Museum - Exhibitions and programs on science and technology, Regional and Natural history, planetarium, and a 1910 Soda Fountain.

Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City - The museum contains twenty-four rooms filled with antique dolls, dolls' houses, cast iron toys, trains, and scale miniatures.

Arabia Steamboat Museum - Explore this museum and learn how the handsome steamer Arabia prospered on the rivers, perished in 1856 and was finally rediscovered 132 years later, precious cargo intact. This exhibit is many things: history, ingenuity, tragedy, adventure, perseverance, preservation and a tribute to the pioneer spirit.

Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun - Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun combined offer over 235 acres of exciting rides, awesome shows and great attractions including two of the top 20 ranked roller coasters in the world. Oceans of Fun offers over 60 acres of water excitement, including 8 water slides, a million-gallon wave pool, areas just for adults and just for children and much more. 

Hallmark Visitor's Center - Step through a giant keyhole into an oversize artist's studio—a room filled with six-foot pencils, markers and paintbrushes. Climb atop huge paint jars to view a video on how Hallmark artists draw, letter, paint, sculpt and stitch designs. Then watch a real technician creating dies for cutting or embossing cards.  2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, (816) 274-3613.

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art - The Albrecht-Kemper is home to an extraordinary group of colonial portraits, rich holdings of American landscapes as well as distinguished examples of American Impressionism and post-Impressionist artists of the Boston School. The museum also features work by important 20th century artists and a growing contemporary collection.

National Military Heritage Museum - Exhibits depict the history of military service-abroad and at home-during war and between wars. A visit to the museum allows you to learn about all five branches of our military and their roles throughout world history, along with the civilians who served on the home-front.

St. Joseph Museum - Nineteenth-century mansion houses Native American, local and natural history exhibits. Also home to a variety of seasonal family activities.