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National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame

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Type
  
Ag Museum

Website
  
aghalloffame.com

Visitors
  
20,000 / year

Phone
  
+1 913-721-1075

National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame

Location
  
630 Hall of Fame Drive Bonner Springs, KS 66012 United States

Address
  
630 N 126th St, Bonner Springs, KS 66012, USA

Similar
  
Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, Grinter Place, Wonderscope Children's Museum, Strawberry Hill Museum, Zip KC

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The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame is a museum and educational facility in Bonner Springs, Kansas, United States. The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code (issued in 1960).

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It is located east of K-7 and south of State Avenue (US-24, near 126th Street) next to the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater and Kansas City Renaissance Festival. It is north of the Kansas Turnpike "Bonner Springs" exit, and about 1 miles west of the Kansas Speedway.

National agricultural center and hall of fame


Main Building

The Main Building built in 1963-64 includes:

  • Gallery of Rural Art
  • National Agricultural Hall of Fame
  • Hall of Rural Living
  • National Farm Broadcasters Hall of Fame
  • Rural Electric Conference Theater
  • National Farmer's Memorial
  • National Poultry Museum
  • Museum of Farming

    The 20,400-square-foot (1,900 m2) building opened in 1967. Much of the museum's 30,000 artifacts, including an extensive collection of farm implements, are housed there.

    Farm Town, U.S.A.

    This recreation a rural village which opened in 1968 includes:

  • Blacksmith Shop
  • General Store
  • Poultry Hatchery
  • Railroad Depot
  • Union Pacific Caboose
  • Operational narrow-gauge train
  • Farm House
  • Farm Shed
  • Chicken Coop
  • Eight-sided Wooden Silo
  • 75-seat outdoor Pavilion
  • Smith Event Barn
  • References

    National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame Wikipedia