Wichita Art Museum

The Wichita Art Museum (also known as WAM) is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas. Exclusively focused on American art, its collection comprises over 12,000 items, a selection of which is displayed across 31,500 sq. ft. (2,900 m²) of galleries.

The museum was established in 1915, when Louise Caldwell Murdock’s will created a trust to start the Roland P. Murdock Collection of art in memory of her husband. The first museum building, designed by New York architect Clarence Stein, opened in 1935 with art borrowed from other institutions, as the first work in the Murdock Collection was only purchased in 1939. Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas, a friend of Louise Murdock's, selected and purchased works for the collection until 1962.