National World War I Museum

National World War I Museum is a museum in Kaw Township, Jackson County, Missouri. National World War I Museum is situated nearby to the railway station Kansas City Union Station, as well as near the museum Science City at Union Station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National World War I Museum and Memorial and Kansas City Union Station.

National World War I Museum and Memorial

Park

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The National World War I Museum and Memorial is located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial, it was designated by the United States Congress in 2004 as the country's official museum dedicated to World War I.

Kansas City Union Station

Railway station

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Kansas City Union Station is a union station that opened in 1914, serving Kansas City, Missouri, and the surrounding metropolitan area. It replaced a small Union Depot built in 1878. Kansas City Union Station is situated 1,600 feet north of National World War I Museum.

Science City at Union Station

Museum

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Science City at Union Station is a family-friendly interactive science center that features traveling exhibitions, The Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium, City Extreme Screen theatre, and more than 120 hands-on displays. Science City at Union Station is situated 1,700 feet north of National World War I Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hospital Hill and Kansas City.

Hospital Hill

Neighborhood

Hospital Hill is a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri. The neighborhood is located between 22nd Street to 25th Street and Gillham Road to Troost Avenue.

Kansas City

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Kansas City is a major Midwestern metropolitan area that spreads across the border of Missouri and Kansas. It is a city that tends to hide itself from tourists.

Quality Hill

Neighborhood

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Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below.

National World War I Museum

Type: Museum
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Kaw Township, Jackson County, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.08083° or 39° 4′ 51″ north

Longitude

-94.58611° or 94° 35′ 10″ west

Elevation

922 feet (281 metres)

Open location code

86F73CJ7+8H

GeoNames ID

7304618

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