Special Exhibits on View Now & Coming Soon - The Museum of Kansas City

Kansas City visitors will soon walk through a new exhibition of contemporary sculpture at The Museum of Kansas City.

Admission is completely free to the public for all current and upcoming showcases at the institution, requiring no tickets for entry.

The Museum of Kansas City reported that the upcoming exhibition titled Outside : Inside will open on Thursday, November 19, 2026, and remain on view through April 4, 2027.

Organized in collaboration with the Smith Family Foundation and curated by Dwight Smith, the exhibition features works by eight Kansas City-based visual artists. The participating creators include Mark Cowardin, Kevin Demery, Jill Downen, Cheryl Gail, Leon Jones, Hùng Lê, César Lopez, and Adams Puryear.

When the doors and gates open on November 19, visitors will find five distinct sculptural works installed across the Museum grounds alongside one piece presented inside Corinthian Hall. Additional works will rotate into both indoor and outdoor spaces over the following months, allowing the display to evolve gradually.

Funding for the exhibition is provided through substantial backing by the Sosland Foundation alongside corporate participants such as Milbank Manufacturing, JE Dunn Construction, Commerce Bank, Mark One Electric, Dillingham Enterprises, Inc., Evergy, and International Architects Atelier.

Alongside the upcoming sculpture showcase, four special exhibitions are currently on view at the Museum.

Located on the second floor in The Jean and Tom McDonnell Gallery, Homeland: The Osage in Missouri centers on Osage culture and worldview. Led by Haskell Indian Nations University professor of Indigenous and American Indian Studies and Osage Nation citizen Jimmy Lee Beason II as curator, the showcase utilizes museum loans and holdings to investigate how the Osage navigated industrialization and European colonization.

Expanding across the third-floor changing gallery, corridors, and grand stair landing, Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art brings together 15 artists across diverse tribal affiliations and mediums.

Marking the city’s inaugural showcase of contemporary Native art on this scale, this multi-generational exhibition was put together by Bruce Hartman—who serves as the retired Founding Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art—alongside Dr. Jami Powell, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College’s Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art.

Meanwhile, the education gallery hosts Connecting Cultures Across Kansas City: The Hand-in-Hand Folk Art Collection. Curated by Mattie Rhodes Center Public Historian Christina Loya, the display features over 200 handmade folk art objects originally gathered by Kansas City native Alice Ann Biggerstaff.

On the third floor within the A Cultural & Community Restoration: 1970s to Present Day, The Edward F. Swinney Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee Gallery, Dunbar: Kansas City’s First Black Suburb runs through June 27, 2027.

Organized in partnership with the Heart of the City Neighborhood Association and the Center for Neighborhoods at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, the exhibition highlights the resilience and community heritage of a neighborhood founded in 1915.