You are Invited!
Steampunk Day 
10 a.m-5 p.m. this Saturday, May 24
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Cowtown's award-winning Steampunk Day returns this Saturday, May 24. Activities for the entire family are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visitors will experience a re-imagined, fantasy Victorian world straight out of a Jules Verne or H.G. Wells novel.
  
Simply put, Steampunk is Victorian science fiction that includes some influences from turn-of-the century Barnum & Bailey carnivals (Steampunk 101). During Steampunk Day, several hundred Steampunk fans will be strolling Cowtown's streets dressed in traditional 19th century fashion accessorized with mechanical gadgets, goggles, gears and other pre-modern imaginative technology. The cornerstone of the Steampunk movement is taking modern inventions -- the Internet, weaponry, clocks -- and re-imagining how they would look had they been created with Victorian technology and materials.
  
Here's just some of what will be going on at Cowtown during Steampunk Day:
  • Beard and mustache competition
  • Costume awards
  • Two panel presentations and a display featuring the Airship Vindus filmmaking group from Colombia, Mo.
  • The "Glorious Steampunk Pentathlon," a competition between three Airship companies*
  • Coventry leather demonstrations*
  • Magician Roscoe Riff's "Magic & Mayhem" 
  • Dr. Dillinger's Dime Museum & Show
  • Steampunk crafts for kids
  • Presentations about:
    • "Fraternal Organizations of the Victorian Period"*
    • "Steampunk Literature" 
  • Demonstrations:
  • Seven Steampunk vendors* 

    *new for 2014
  
Steampunk Day has been a popular event at Cowtown since 2010 and was named "Best Steampunk Expo" by True West Magazine in 2012.
  
For more information about Steampunk Day call (316) 350-3323 or e-mail Cowtown Curator Teddie Barlow at tbarlow@wichita.gov.   
  
   
  

Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc., and the City of Wichita appreciate your continued support of Cowtown, one of the oldest living-history museums in the Midwest and an invaluable asset to Wichita. 

 

Cowtown has the distinction of being accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Accreditation recognizes high standards in museums and ensures they continue to uphold the highest museum standards and public trust. Only 4 percent of the nation's estimated 17,500 museums are accredited.
 

Cowtown's strong reputation drives a large cross-section of the community to seek out its unique programming that chronicles Wichita's 1865-1880 transformation from a frontier settlement to a cattle town to a burgeoning agricultural and manufacturing area. More than 6,000 schoolchildren and 60,000 total visitors from all 50 states and many foreign countries experience Cowtown each year. 

 

With special events, concerts and 54 historic and re-created buildings on 23 acres off the Chisholm Trail, one visit to Cowtown is simply not enough. We invite you and your family to enjoy the benefits of membership today.  

 

For more information about Cowtown, call 316-350-3323 or go to OldCowtown.org.  

 

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