Textiles conservator Holly Messinger displayed a deteriorated button from a men’s frock coat she was preserving at the Arabia ...

Uniquely KC is a Star series exploring what makes Kansas City ... Museum of Art Housing some 42,000 works of art, the Nelson is particularly known for its Asian art, European and American ...

The leader of Kansas City Parks & Recreation wants to transform Hope Lodge in Swope Park into a regional gathering place for ...

A large section of the museum is dedicated to four regions of American barbecue: the Carolinas, Texas, Memphis and Kansas City. Visitors can learn about the specific barbecue traditions ...

Textiles conservator Holly Messinger examines pieces of a man’s frock coat she was preserving at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City on Thursday, April 18, 2025. The coat, recovered from ...

Since it opened to the public on Dec. 11, 1933, the Nelson — whose east wing was originally called the Atkins Museum of Fine ...

Holly Messinger, the textiles conservator at The Arabia Steamboat Museum, carefully laid out the pieces of ... just six miles west of Kansas City. Over the years, the Missouri River shifted its course ...