Unusual museums in Wichita
Looking for unusual museums & collections in Wichita? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Strataca - Kansas Underground Salt Museum, Rock in a Cage, House of Tank Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Wichita they'd never find on their own.
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Strataca - Kansas Underground Salt Museum
You descend 650 feet in a double-deck mine elevator into a 275-million-year-old salt deposit, then board a tr…
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Rock in a Cage
A genuine boulder encircled by a spike-topped metal fence on the Old Mill Museum grounds — discovered during…
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House of Tank Museum
A Wichita neurosurgeon's personal obsession took over a former printing warehouse on the north side of town,…
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Original Pizza Hut Museum
This tiny 500-square-foot brick building — the actual 1958 original Pizza Hut, not a replica — was relocated…
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World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things
Artist Erika Nelson's storefront crammed with hand-built miniature replicas of America's biggest roadside att…