Inman Museum

04/18/2025

04/01/2025

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$35 for single memberships; $50 for family memberships. Members' dues help us to stay open and not charge admission.

03/11/2025

We received a message from Adam Suderman a while back with some questions:

Greetings! My in-laws are from Inman and the photo of the farmyard is there’s today. It is of my father-in-law’s family, including his dad and siblings and also their parents. I came across a post of yours regarding Zoar and I was curious if my suspicion is right of this being Jacob and Margaretha Klaassen with them in the photo. It was taken in 1903 and they were members of Bethel Church at the time.

If anyone could help us identify the people in the picture, we'll send the information on to Adam.

What I love about this picture is the owl boxes (or I think that's what they are) on the side of the barn. Nature's own rodent control!

02/27/2025

Match Week is Here!

Now through March 7th, a match of up to $110,000 is available for participating organizations, thanks to the Community ‘Dream’ Fund and a gift from the Gaeddert Family Fund. This will mark the 12th year of our matching event, which helps nonprofits build their endowments. A total of $610,023 was raised during the event last year.

Matching funds are awarded proportionally to the total donations received during the week. Each organization is eligible to receive up to 20% of the match. For example, if an organization receives 20% of the total donations toward its endowment, it will receive 20% of the match to use for immediate needs.

“This event is an opportunity for organizations to build a permanent resource while securing grant funds for current needs or programs,” said Becky Goss, president and CEO of MCCF.

Donations to participating organizations can be made in person at the MCCF office, 1233 N. Main, during office hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Online donations can be made through the our website (www.McPhersonFoundation.org) and will be accepted until midnight March 7. Mailed donations must be postmarked by March 7:

McPherson County Community Foundation
P.O. Box 822
McPherson, KS 67460

To make a Qualified Charitable Distribution to an organization, donors must submit a donation receipt by March 7. Funds from IRA accounts do not have to be transferred immediately and will be accepted by the Foundation until Dec. 31. Donation receipts will be available on the Foundation’s Match Week page on its website (www.McPhersonFoundation.org).

Match Week, formerly known as Match Day, began in 2014 to help build the endowed funds of organizations operating in McPherson County. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $2.8 million for local organizations.

A list of participating organizations will be released at a later date under the Match Week tab on the Foundations webpage.

02/12/2025

01/12/2025

Keep February 9, 2025 lunch open for our Souper Bowl lunch at the Community Building in Inman!
Details to follow!

12/08/2024

We have a full run of sizes in our T-shirts again! If you have friends or family who would like one for Christmas, come and get them! $25.00 each, tax included!

If you'd like to have one mailed to you, please message us, and we'll get you taken care of!

10/30/2024

Two wood inlays by H.H. Wilson of Inman, Kansas. Donated to the Inman Museum by Diane Enns Hooper of Cu***ng, GA.

Diane’s father, Paul G. Enns, an Inman native, kept these two pieces of art all his life. The museum is greatful to the donor for their return to where they were created.

H.H. Wilson inscribed the back with the following inscriptions:

Oak and Poplars

Sky - Japanese Ash
Trees - African Black Locust
Near land - Walnut
Middle land - Yellow Poplar
Road - Dark Mahogany
Frame - Oriental Wood

Evening Dreams

Sky - Avodire
Water - Maple
Large tree - Silky Oak
Small tree - Cherry
Distant land - Mahogany
Ship - Bird’s Eye Maple
Frame - Striped Mahogany

Does anyone remember Mr. H. H. Wilson?

10/23/2024

I'm very excited to let you all know that we have three visitors from Poland coming to the Inman Museum on Sunday, October 27, 2024. They have requested a tour of the Inman Museum which we are happy to provide.

This delegation of comes to us from the Lower Vistula River Landscape Parks Complex at Swiecie, Poland, a center of Mennonite history in that country. Included is the esteemed Mennonite historian, Michal Targowski, professor of history at the Nicolas Copernicus University in
Torun, Poland.

These gentlemen are coming to Kansas to learn about Mennonite history in North America while at the same time forging relationships with Kansas museums and archives. They will be visiting the Warkentin House, Mennonite Library and Archives, Kaufman Museum and Bethel College in Newton, as well as the Mennonite Heritage Museum and Alexanderwohl Church in Goessel.

On Sunday they will attend a Holdeman service at Zion Mennonite Church near Inman, have lunch with Maynard and Ruth Koehn at their house on
Fescue Dr., then come to the museum for a tour.

Join us this Saturday, October 26 at 7:00 pm at the Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church for a presentation by Dr. Michal Targowski, "The Przechowko Mennonite Cemetery: Its History & Restoration." Dr. Targowski has been heavily involved in the work being done at the Przechowko Cemetery in Poland near the former village of Przechowko, the ancestral home of the Alexanderwohl, Hoffnungsau and Lone Tree churches in Kansas. The event will be livestreamed on the Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum page and available through this zoom link.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83802103611?pwd=zcT3Pfutqz2uwa2C1TK421CugVlcVu.1 (copy & paste if the link does not take you directly to the meeting).

Come learn about the facsinating story behind one of the oldest cemeteries in Poland and its connections to Mennonite in the U.S.

Photo: A recent photo of the cemetery showing the work that has been done in the past year.

10/01/2024

If you missed the Inman Community Foundation Match Week, it's extended to
THURSDAY NOON,
October 3!
Details in the comments!

09/24/2024

Help the Inman Museum grow and keep moving forward!

09/09/2024

Join us Friday, September 13th @11:00am for Inman Heritage Museum's Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony commemorating the new Inman Harvest Mural! Everyone is welcome! Mindy Allen, with Mindy's Murals, will be joining us, along with Trisha Purdon, KS Office of Rural Prosperity, other special guests.