Celebrate Kansas Day at the Museum!

Celebrate Kansas Day with the High Plains Museum this Friday January 29th from 2:00-6:00PM! Come build Kansas Structures with Imagination Playground, play Kansas Bingo, and make simple crafts!

Creating Spaces Making Places

“Creating Spaces Making Places” will be up at the High Plains Museum from January 4th, 2016 to March 31, 2016. This exhibit explores Goodland architecture and is accompanied by Imagination Playground, the awesome blue building blocks.

Christmas at the Museum

Join us this Saturday, December 12, from 1-5 PM for Christmas at the Museum! This is a come and go event with simple crafts and a chance to decorate our Christmas Tree! Then come back at 7 PM for cookies and a story!   Thank you!

Branding Identity

What is Goodland’s Not-So-Secret Identity?  Can you name a person, place, thing or event that really stands out to you as a signature part of life in Goodland?  The High Plains Museum will be hosting a Kansas Town Hall Program in October and we are starting to look at how our identity has developed.  When one […]

Get A Stamp On Our Identity!

What is Goodland’s Not-So-Secret Identity?  Can you name a person, place, thing or event that really stands out to you as a signature part of life in Goodland?  The High Plains Museum will be hosting a Kansas Town Hall Program in October and we are starting to look at how our identity has developed.  Our identity […]

Hook ‘Em!

Ever wish there was an easier way to fasten your boots with buttons?  What about shirts?  Well the good news is there is a way!  You can simply use a buttonhook to fasten those pesky buttons!

I Want Candy!

This week I had a brand new experience!  For the first time I tried Swedish Fish, a chewy candy that tastes like fruit.  Throughout our lives we will have lots of new experiences, and some of these new experiences might come from a museum.

Caldwell’s – The Store of Plenty!

James M. Caldwell, sons Don and Dick Caldwell and son-in-law Maurice Peters started the company Caldwell’s in the 1920’s.  James worked for the Goodland Power and Light Co. and was chief electrician for the power company for seven years.  It was through his work at the Power and Light Plant that he learned about electrical […]

Pull Along Little Doggie!

Did you have a favorite toy growing up?  Many of us did, and perhaps one such toy was a pull toy.  If this was your toy then you might remember taking walks or going on grand adventures with it!

All Aboard!

Imagine you are in the year 1876 and you were traveling on the railroad out west.  How would you know what time trains arrive and depart from stations or find a map of the area you are traveling through?  These questions are answered in the railroads timetable!  Timetables are the booklet that the schedule of […]

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