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| Established | November 13, 1991 |
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| Location | River Market, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°06′35″N 94°34′53″W / 39.109778°N 94.581485°W |
| Type | History museum |
| Collections | Cargo of steamboat that sank in 1856 |
| Collection size | 200 tons |
| Website | 1856 |
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.[1] 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.[2]
- ^ Heaster, Jerry. "Arabia Museum Launched," The Kansas City Star. November 13, 1991.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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