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2020 Meta: and Exhibition about Exhibitions
City of Hope: Resurrection City & the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
2019 K is for Kansas: Discovering Kansas from A to Z
Campaign for a New China:
2018 Better Choose Me: Collecting and Creating with Tobacco Fabric Novelties, 1880-1920
Newton Kids Create: Storytelling through Art
The Chisholm Trail: Driving the American West
2017 Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War
2016 Memory Matters: Works by Gesine Janzen
Root fot the Home Team: Building Community Through Sports
2015 Sorting Out Race: Examining Racial Identity and Stereotypes in Thrift Store Donations
2014 Climate and Energy Central: Doing Science in Kansas
What's Old is New: Recent Acquisitions to Our Mennonite Collections
Art That Worked: WPA Art in Newton, 1935-1943
2013 Considering the Commonplace: Prairie Towns Through the Lens of Bob Regier
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
Threshing Stone: Mennonite Artifact & Icon
Americans by Choice: The Story of Immigration & Citizenship in Kansas
2012 In the Fields of Time: The Impact of Emil Haury and Waldo Wedel on American Archeology
2011 Eyes of a Stranger: Indian Images and Experiences by Cookie Wiebe
Awesome 150: Museum Friends Share Their Favorites
KANSAS: Kids At Northridge Sharing Art and Stories
2010 The Bison: American Icon
Beloved: Artwork by Kristin Diener
Images of Paraguay
Wheels: Transportation and Toys from the Collections
2009 Considering the Commonplace: Prairie Towns Through the Lens of Bob Regier
Hot and Cold: Images of America in Conflict
2008 Cobalt to Indigo
Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land
2007 Meet the Beak
2006 Homage to the Flint Hills
K is for Kansas: Discovering Kansas from A to Z
2005 The Art of Sharing, the Sharing of Art: Responses to Mennonite Relief in Postwar Germany
K is for Kansas: Discovering Kansas from A to Z
The Gift of Quilting: Mennonite Quilts from the Kauffman Museum Collection
2004 K is for Kansas: Discovering Kansas from A to Z
Reeds and Wool: Patterned Screens of Central Asia
2003 Landscape of Memories: Art Installations by Katherine Bartel
When Disaster Strikes: The Story of Mennonite Disaster Service
2002 Golden Weaves of Grain: The Art of Wheat Weaving
The Eye of An Artist: A Visual Journey with Bob Regier
Scenes of Christmas: Victorian Newspaper Illustrations
2001 Forgotten Florals: Decorative Discoveries from the Kauffman Museum Collections
Simple Gifts: Artworks by Mary Lou & Ernie Goertzen
Walking in Beauty: Navajo Blankets and Rugs from Kansas Collections
2000 Drawn from the Plains: American Regionalist Art, 1920-1950
Buffalo Bones & Grinding Stones
Heritage Works: Abner Hershberger
1999 Better Choose Me: Collecting and Creating with Tobacco Fabric Novelties, 1880-1920
Heritage Sampler
1998 Reeds and Wool: Patterned Screens of Central Asia
Recuerdos de Newton: The Mexican-American Community of Newton, Kansas
1997 Of Matter and Spirit: African Art from Kansas Collections
1996 Menno Simons: Image, Art and Identity
1995 The Gift of Hope: The MCC Story, 1920-1995
1994 Pythons, Parlor Lamps, and Poems: Charles Kauffman and His Museum
1993 Threads of Life: Mayan Clothing from Guatemala
Our Legacy--From the Heart of the Decorative Arts Collection
1992 Beyond Tradition: Mennonite Art Quilts
1991 Mennonite Furniture: A Migrant Tradition, 1766-1910
1990 Shards, Trails, and Trees: A Landscape's Hidden History
Mirror of the Martyrs
1989 What We Collect: Recent Acquisitions
West Africa: Powerful Patterns
1988 Victorian Sentiments: Beauty and the Beast
Decoys: Old Tools, Modern Art
1987 Of Land and People (Kauffman Museum Permanent Exhibit)
From College Closets: Bethel 1887-1987
1986 Images of the Prairie
Anatolian Carpets: A Family Connection
1985 From Russia...with Trunks: Immigrant Culture of the 1870s
1984 The Art of Sharing, the Sharing of Art: Responses to Mennonite Relief Work
1983 Kauffman Museum: A New Beginning
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