Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame is a museum located in Wichita, dedicated to preserving the history of sports in the state of Kansas. The museum provides exhibits, archives, facilities, services, and activities to honor those individuals and teams whose achievements in sports brought distinction to themselves, to their communities and to the entire state of Kansas.
First basketball team at the University of Kansas, 1899. Coach James Naismith is on the far right.
An early 20th century photograph of Garfield Weede, a charter member admitted to the Hall of Fame in 1961.
Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River.
Image: Wichita Skyline 2021
Image: Carey House (Wichita, Kansas) 1
Image: Calvary Baptist Church. Wichita, Kansas
Darius Sales Munger House, built in 1868, is the oldest surviving building in Wichita (at Old Cowtown Museum).