Northeast News
April 4, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The Kansas City Museum is getting back some former artifacts for an upcoming exhibit.

According to a press release from the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department, original furnishings of the Long family and other historical artifacts are coming back into Corinthian Hall and the Carriage House of the Kansas City Museum in a new exhibition titled “Divining the Museum: Visions of Past, Present and Future.” The exhibit will be on display from May 7 through June 13, 2015. Curated by Max Adrian and Paige Beltowski, and featuring Kansas City artists and students from the Kansas City Art Institute, “Divining the Museum” is a temporary exhibition. Guided exhibition tours are free and will be available on the hour from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 7-30, and Wednesday-Saturday, June 3-13.

An exhibition-opening reception will be held from 5 – 9 p.m. Saturday, May 2, at the Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd. The reception will include performative readings starting at 7:30 p.m. that tell stories inspired by the layered history of the Museum and its myriad inhabitants over the years. An RSVP is required for this reception as spaces will be limited. Please email your RSVP to anna.tutera@kcmo.org.

Divining the Museum showcases contemporary artwork including installations, sculpture, ceramics, and photography alongside original objects from the Museum’s collection. Adrian and Beltowski propose imaginative and modern relationships with the historical artifacts and materials to catalyze conversation about the reinterpretation, relevancy, and meaning of history. The exhibition delves into how and why the boundaries between fact and fiction are blurred, even subconsciously, when new audiences are learning about historic events. Divining the Museum poses this question and others in many forms to stimulate curiosity, dialogue, and dreams of the future Kansas City Museum.

Divining the Museum is the first exhibition of 2015.