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ATTRACTIONS

Visit the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, which can be found on West 26th Street.

See the wonderful artifacts that date from the 1850’s, displayed at the Arabia Steamboat Museum, which is located on Grand Boulevard.

If you’re fond of baseball, check out the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, on East 18th Street.

See what’s new in contemporary art by visiting Kemper Museum of Contemporary, situated on Warwick Boulevard.

Check out the schedule from the Uptown Theatre, on Broadway Street, considered to be a jewel of Kansas City, and catch a theatre play with one of your closest friends.

Find out more about the history of aviation, by exploring the Airline History Museum, located on Northwest Lou Holland Drive.

Sports & outdoor events

Hospital Hill Run Half Marathon, 10K and 5K, June 5, 2010

This popular annual run is nicknamed `grandfather of all Kansas City road races`, due to the hilly and challenging course on which the runners are taken.

This year, the race will be celebrating its 37th edition, and as always, will take hundreds of enthusiastic runners on a long, narrow, loop course, on a mostly north-south route, through the tree-lined parks and downtown city streets, along the way, passing through Hyde Park, Gillham Park, Brookside Park and Penn Valley Park, revealing some of the most scenic areas in Kansas City.

This event is sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School, and despite the fact that it has one of the most challenging courses of all road races in the state, it is also considered to be among the most popular annual sporting events in the city’s area.

Each year, several charities use the race as a fundraiser for their organizations, this year, among the charities that will benefit from the race, being the HHT Foundation International, Girls on the Run – Johnson County, Heartstrings Community Foundation and Jackson County CASA, as well as NSCIA (National Spinal Cord Injury Association) and Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

Festivals

Kansas City Irish Fest, September 3-5, 2010

This fun, entertaining annual celebration is considered to be one of the top 3 largest Irish festivals in the nation, and has been also named several times the premier annual celebration in Kansas City, by previous visitors.

This year, the event will be celebrating its 8th edition, and will offer visitors all kinds of entertainment, including 30 Celtic rock and Irish bands, which will perform on 7 stages, a Children’s Area, dozens of workshops and exhibits, as well as lots of food vendors and great shops. If your trip to Kansas City is set in September, be sure not to miss this fabulous event!

Shopping

Kansas City is truly a paradise for `shoppaholics`! The city offers a wide and varied range of great shopping spots that have something to offer for every taste and every budget.

Clothing, antiques, souvenirs, gift shops, music, books, toys, jewelry…whatever you’re looking for you will certainly find it in one of the many shops, malls and stores available in the city.

Below, there is a list which contains some of the most popular and favorite shopping spots in Kansas City. Check it out!

Zona Rosa Farmers Market: 7200 NW 86th St Suite F, Kansas City, MO.

Country Club Plaza: 4745 Central St, Kansas City, MO.

Town Pavilion: 1100 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO.

Halls Crown Center: 200 East 25th Street, Kansas City, MO.

City Market: 20 East 5th Street, Kansas City, MO.

Metro North Mall: 400 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO.

Blue Ridge Crossings Shopping Center: 4200 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Kansas City, MO.

Art Flea Kansas City: 1522 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO.

Antioch Shopping Center: 5307 North Antioch Road, Kansas City, MO.

Tuileries Plaza: 6107 NW 63RD Ter, Kansas City, MO.

The Summit: 3660 Summit Street, Kansas City, MO.