American Jazz Museum

Museums, Historical Sites, and ZoosMissouri, United States11-50 Employees

The American Jazz Museum in Kansas City presents jazz as a distinct American art form through performance, exhibitions, education, and research, anchored in the 18th and Vine historic district. It traces jazz history across the United States with a focus on Kansas City as a major center, and its exhibits connect jazz to broader threads of American history and African-American culture, spanning film, literature, the arts, dance, and pop culture. The museum serves as a cultural institution that helps visitors understand how jazz reflects and shapes society. 

It operates within the Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos sector, serving a varied audience of local residents, travelers, students, and researchers who seek insight into jazz history and its cultural impact. Based in Kansas City, the museum has been a community anchor in the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District for more than two decades, welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors. A notable recent development is the 2021 launch of In the Yard, a program aimed at funding youth programming, digitizing the collection, and creating a jazz incubator, reflecting its ongoing efforts to expand programming and preservation beyond exhibitions.

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