El Quartelejo Museum

902 West 5th Street
Scott City, Kansas 67871
(620) 872-5912   (620) 872-3523

Open Monday - Friday: 1 - 5PM
or by appointment
free
 

El Quartelejo Museum - Scott City, Kansas

El Quartelejo Museum
El Quartelejo Museum - Scott City, Kansas

El Quartelejo Museum is operated by the Scott County Historical Society. The free museum focuses on local interests, from prehistory to the present day. Temporary exhibits highlight contemporary arts or culture.

Nearly a third of the museum is devoted to Monument Rocks and the area's fossil history. Children can "dig" for fossils in a sandbox. One of the more interesting other displays is a replica of one room of the seven room El Quartelejo pueblo which was built nearby in the 1600s/

Gillicus
Complete fossil of a Gillicus, a fish that resembles a Tarpon. Its remains are found in local Niobrara chalk.


Recreation of a typical Plains Apache Indian encampment in the 1500s.


X-ray shoe fit machine


Temporary exhibit of carvings by the late LeRoy Glenn Browning

Kansas fossil and chalk formation attractions
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