| Name | Neighborhood | Type | Summary |
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| American Jazz Museum | 18th and Vine | Music | History of jazz music, located in the same building as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum |
| American Royal Museum | Greater Downtown | Agriculture | Open by appointment, exhibits about horse and livestock shows, rodeos and agriculture |
| Arabia Steamboat Museum | River Market | Museum ship | Recovered mid-19th-century side wheeler steamboat and artifacts |
| Battle of Westport Museum & Visitor Center | South Kansas City | History | website, located in Swope Park, history of the Battle of Westport |
| Belger Arts Center | Crossroads | Art | Features a fine art collection and also holds exhibitions of art in various media |
| Black Archives of Mid-America | 18th and Vine | History | website, features permanent exhibit about the story of African Americans in the Kansas City |
| Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center | East Side | African American | Legacy of Kansas City's early African-American pioneers, artistic, cultural and social history of the African-American experience |
| College Basketball Experience | Downtown | Sports | Includes the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, interactive history of men's college basketball in the United States |
| Greenlease Art Gallery | Plaza area | Art | Part of the Center for Arts and Letters at Rockhurst University [1] |
| Hallmark Visitors Center | Greater Downtown | Commodity | website, exhibits of historic Hallmark cards, ornaments, art, collectibles and Hallmark Cards company history |
| Harris-Kearney House | Westport | Historic house | Operated by the Westport Historical Society, mid 19th-century Greek revival house |
| John Wornall House Museum | Brookside | Historic house | Pre-Civil War era house |
| Kansas Fire Brigade Museum | Downtown | Firefighting | Located in a historic fire station [2] |
| Kansas City Garment District Museum | Downtown | History | Clothing, hats, photos of the period, period tools of the trade such as sewing machines, scissors and industrial fabric cutters |
| Kansas City Irish Center | Broadway Gillham | Ethnic | Irish and Irish-American community, culture, history, and heritage in the greater Kansas City area and region |
| Kansas City Museum | Northeast | Multiple | History, natural history, art |
| Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art | Southmoreland | Art | Works created after the 1913 Armory Show to works by present-day artists |
| Missouri Quilt Museum | North | Quilting and Sewing | World's Largest Spool of thread, over 1000 toy sewing machines, antique treadles, quilt galleries, anything and everything sewing related. www.missouriquiltmuseum.com Located in Hamilton, MO |
| The Money Museum | Greater Downtown | Numismatic | Exhibits on the Federal Reserve, nation's financial system, coin collections; operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City |
| Museum of BBQ | Greater Downtown (Crown Center) | Food | website, various exhibits about barbecue |
| National Airline History Museum | Northeast | Aviation | Located at the Kansas City Downtown Airport, history of commercial aviation |
| National Museum of Toys and Miniatures | Plaza area | Toy | Classic toys and fine-scale miniatures (formerly the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City) |
| National World War I Museum and Memorial | Greater Downtown | History | World War I artifacts in interactive displays |
| Negro Leagues Baseball Museum | 18th and Vine | Sports | History of the Negro leagues, located in the same building as the American Jazz Museum |
| Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | Southmoreland | Art | Collections include European paintings, Asian art, American paintings and photography |
| Science City at Union Station | Greater Downtown | Science | Over 120 hands-on science exhibits, planetarium |
| Shoal Creek Living History Museum | Northland | Living | website, 19th-century Missouri life, over eighteen buildings and log cabins dated from the 1800s relocated from surrounding counties to create a small village setting, on 80 areas in Hodge Park |
| The Ginger House Museum | East | History | website, Birthplace of famed actress/dancer Ginger Rogers, restored to 1911 period [closed since 2019] |
| Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site | Midtown-Westport | Biographical | Home and studio of artist Thomas Hart Benton |
| Trailside Center | South Kansas City | History | Exhibits memorabilia from the Battle of Westport and the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails. |
| United Federation of Doll Clubs Museum | Northeast | Doll | website, antique, vintage, and modern, play and artist dolls |
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