Original Pizza Hut Museum

This tiny 500-square-foot brick building — the actual 1958 original Pizza Hut, not a replica — was relocated to Wichita State's Innovation Campus in 2018 and turned into a free walk-in museum. The name itself came from a trucker-bar sign with only eight letter slots; "Pizza Hut" just fit. Inside, the founders' accidental thin crust (borrowed from a French-bread cookbook), a pair of sneakers with a pizza-ordering button, Pizza Hut Barbie, and a framed fact about paying Russia $1 million to deliver pizza to space all share about as much room as a studio apartment. Most visitors walk right past it assuming it's a storage shed.

The move: Walk the whole thing in 20 minutes, then make your date guess which exhibit is real — the space pizza fact, the golf pants, or the sauce recipe on a napkin (hint: all three are).

• 📍 West Wichita (WSU Innovation Campus)
• 💸 $
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 2090 Innovation Blvd, Wichita, KS 67208

Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Verified 2026-06-09.