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  1. A Historic Kansas City Attraction

    Hundreds of 1800s steamboats were lost to the Missouri River, hidden deep beneath riverbeds and farmfields. The National Steamboat Museum will be the pre-eminent historical and …

  2. Arabia Steamboat Museum

    Arabia Steamboat Museum. The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a favorite Kansas City attraction, a history museum housing 200 tons of cargo from life on the American frontier in 1856. Our …

  3. Arabia Steamboat Museum

    The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market. The museum is operated by the partners of River Salvage Inc., who excavated the Arabia, and claims to have the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.

  4. About the Museum

    The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a unique Kansas City attraction: a time capsule of life on the American frontier in the mid-19th century, and the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.

  5. Hours & Rates

    Located just two blocks from I-70, I-35 and I-29, the Arabia Steamboat Museum is an easy stop to make while traveling to and from many popular Missouri tourist destinations. Fewer than …

  6. Arabia Steamboat Museum

    The Arabia Steamboat Museum houses a fascinating time capsule of frontier life in the 1800s. The Arabia was headed up the Missouri River in the fall of 1856 when it struck a tree snag and sank just north of Kansas City.

  7. All You Need to Know about KC’s Arabia Steamboat …

    The Arabia Steamboat Museum displays this fascinating collection of artifacts once thought forever lost to history. Visitors can ride the KC Streetcar to the institution, located at The City Market in Kansas City’s …

  8. ARABIA STEAMBOAT MUSEUM

    ARABIA STEAMBOAT MUSEUM. ADDRESS: 400 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. LOCATION: On the east side of The City Market, a few blocks north of Downtown in the River Market district. PHONE: 816-471-1856.

  9. Arabia Steamboat Museum

    When the mighty Steamboat Arabia sank near Kansas City on September 5, 1856, she carried 200 tons of mystery cargo. Lost for 132 years, its recovery in 1988 was like finding the King Tut's Tomb of the Missouri River: remarkably …