Wornall Majors House Museum

We didn't get to go inside the museum because it was closed. We saw the Chamber Orchestra open their season. One song before the sprinkles. They had to move under cover of the porch. Played a few songs then. We hope to be able to tour this home soon. My wife loved Brookside.

The Wornall House on Wornall Rd. and The Majors House on State Line are two separate house museums ran by the same organization. I toured the Wornall House.The cost was $8 for a cell phone based audio tour. It lasts about 23 minutes but with pausing the app, it took me about an hour to completely tour the house, gardens and grounds. The seven accessible rooms contain original artifacts from the Wornall family or authentic period pieces collected from the region. The house serves as a focal point for discussing Bloody Kansas, The Battle of Westport, Slavery, and Kansas City in the second half of the 19th century. The original Steinway square piano and the George Caleb Bingham portraits of the family are highlights for me as were the battle artifacts. The slavery used leg irons were a poignant reminder of the reality and brutality of this American nightmare. That item was unearthed at the Withers plantation in Liberty - land that was adjacent to my idyllic childhood home - that's a lot to contemplate.Another overlooked jewel in our great city. Please visit and support their preservation of a vital link to our past.

Went for the ghost tours the week before Halloween. The atmosphere was great. There was a firepit, hot cider, and great history provided. The staff was also extremely nice. The tour lasted around an hour and each room had its own event setup. I definitively plan to make it out to other events at the Wornall House.

I went with my significant other to this museum to do the "haunted tour" a week before Halloween. We met at the carriage house where they had cider and a fire pit and then our group (about 10-12 people) were taken on a guided tour of the home by historically dressed actors. I won't divulge too much about the tour in case others would like to take it, but it was a nice blend of history about the house (it was built in the 1850s so a lot of the history is Civil War based) and some fun Halloweeny-type productions. The tour lasted an hour and if nothing else, the history and the tour of the old home was fascinating. I will say, a lot of the tour was death and haunting-based (naturally) so I'd probably come back and tour the home again without all that just for more history. Considering I've lived in KCMO most of my life and I didn't know this museum existed, I'd recommend this to anyone as a cool experience of KC history.