Old Cowtown Museum — Attraction in Wichita

For any bride who is looking for a venue, keep looking. We had our ceremony and reception at Old Cowtown Museum. When I signed a contract with them a year in advance, I was required to have my ceremony after business hours as they use the visitors center where we held the ceremony and reception as the main thorough way for museum guests. I was also informed that they would do the set up and tear down of tables and chairs for me and that they would have enough chairs for 150 guests for both the ceremony and reception area.

On the day of the rehearsal, I spoke with the employee in charge of the rentals. She informed me that they did not have enough chairs for my guests in the reception area and that I would be responsible for pulling chairs from my ceremony area into the reception area in order to accomodate. As I was leaving, I noticed that the museum hours had changed and no one informed me. There was a sign posted stating that there would be no August rentals (mind you my wedding was an August rental) and that there hours for August would change from their regular 9 am - 4 pm to 2 pm to 9 pm (the hours had not changed online and did not change until I brought it to their attention).

This meant that there would be museum guests walking through during my ceremony and reception. When I saw this, I attempted to contact the lady in charge of rentals in person prior to leaving however she had left for the day. I requested that she call me immediately in order to discuss this.

SHE NEVER CALLED ME. I called back twice before she spoke with me at least 2 hrs later. She admitted that she knew the hours had changed a month ago and no one had contacted me concerning this. She also admitted that she never told me about this despite speaking with me during the rehearsal. She did not have a plan as to how to fix this. I informed her that it would be a HUGE liability to have museum guests walking through during the ceremony and reception. Mind you, the reason for me having the ceremony and reception at 5:30 was as this would not interfere with museum hours and guests. AND, this was the requirement when I signed the contract a year prior.

I made five phone calls the night before my wedding in attempts to fix this. The executive director I spoke with was rude. I felt that she was not interested in my initial concerns as when I spoke with her on the phone the first time she was speaking with someone else in the background. As it was the night before my wedding, I had no choice but to come to an agreement with them and bring in extra security to ensure that no unwanted guests would enter into our ceremony and reception.

Only hours before the ceremony, we found out that there was a scheduled gun fight to take place during our ceremony. We had too of course had to take our own initiative and work with the role players to ensure that they waited until after our OUTDOOR ceremony finished to have them hold it. I could go on and on about Old Cowtown, but I would just highly advise that you do not go with them. Extremely poor business management and even worse customer service....

Beware! This is a Masonic recruiting grounds and should be avoided by believers. I’m shocked no one has mentioned this. There is an ominous presence on the grounds. It wasn’t until we came across exhibit 25 that everything made sense. When I saw the Masonic symbol out front I could hardly believe my eyes! I thought surely this stands for something else- maybe stone masons from back in the day.

My husband and I ventured in and sure enough there was a man there defending the cult. Since nobody was offering any questions, he began sarcastically addressing common objections to the freemason occult.

My husband and I decided to leave after this but out of curiosity we stopped at the “Presbyterian Church” before leaving. What I saw was an abomination. Prominently displayed on the alter were free mason garbs and a skull and cross bones (see photo). This was not a sanctuary to worship our Lord and Savior but appeared to be more of an tribute to death. I quickly snapped a photo and my husband and I high-tailed it out of there. While we were on the grounds my husband developed a headache and my stomach was in knots (even before seeing the freemason stuff).

When we got to the car I prayed and immediately my stomach began to relax and my husband’s headache was gone. Wake up Wichita! Old Cowtown is a demonic playground and an attempt to recruit the unsuspecting into a secretive cult cloaked under the nobility of charity.

Many freemasons aren’t aware that they are worshipping the demonic until they reach level 13. Should a mason reach the high-rank of level 30, it is only then that the true identity is revealed of what they worship (Jahbulon), who bears an almost perfect resemblance to the fallen angel of Satan.

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Self-guided walk/tour time: 2 hours

This was by far the biggest highlight of my trip to Wichita, KS. As someone who has never experienced the magic of a historically preserved town such as the Old Cowtown Museum, this was packed full of history, wonders, awe and insight to a different era.

My off-season visit on a slightly rainy day left me to be the only visitor on the property, but the staff still greeted me and answered my questions with pleasure. I was at first uncertain how to proceed, what was off-limits, but as you explore and reach locked doors, you simply turn around and explore in a different direction. Most everything is open with exceptions of areas closed for staff or safety, for example, the upstairs of the houses built in ~1850. Understandable.

I was able to walk the whole property including stopping for photos, stopping for a soda in their cafe which also had hot food such as hot dogs and convenience snacks. Their self-branded Sarsaparilla was surprisingly good!

I took more pictures here than I did my whole trip, I found everything so interesting and I had several moments where though I was alone, my jaw would drop and I exclaimed, "oh my god" in the still, quiet areas.

I can imagine that the summer season brings the town to a role-playing ruckus with kids running around, staff dressed in period clothing, etc. but my experience was unique and hard to replicate but I feel so lucky I got to see it the way I did.

Definitely recommend an off-season, weekday if you want a quiet, solo walk of the property.

Thank you to staff, the keepers of the grounds, the people who maintain this...