Clay County Museum & Historical Society

Privately managed and operated Clay County, Missouri Museum. There are three floors of exhibits. The building is as amazing as the exhibits. There also is a good selection of well written local history books available to purchase. They are self funded, so please leave an extra few dollars in the donation box as admission is free. Worth the stop!

Interesting artifacts and photos from this county. Come talk to the dockets. They can tell you great stories surrounding each display.

August 2021. Free admission. We liked this museum better than the Jessie James bank museum which is right around the corner. Self guided tour with three stories of antiques to look at. The building used to be a pharmacy with doctors offices upstairs. Spent about 40 minutes here or less.

The museum is located on the historic Liberty square and has 3 floors. The basement has farm implements and the 3rd floor has recreated an early 20th century era doctors office that was once located there. The ground floor has most of the artifacts. This space was originally an apothecary shop and contains tons of old bottles that contained drugs and ointments. It also has a significant collection of arrowheads and objects un-earthed in the Nebo Hill area of Clay county. There are lots of home furnishings and related items from Liberty's history with photos hung and in booklets. in the back room you can sit and go through many volumes of historical notebooks and collections of published items. This should be a required stop for all Clay county residents at least once to appreciate how Clay county has developed, but nothing stands out to make it worthy of a visit if you are not a native. They charge $3 admission.