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The Hallmark Visitors Center is located in the Crown Center complex, Kansas City, Missouri. While you’re here, you might as well stay awhile!
You’ll find several other FUN opportunities for school groups and families, including:
- Add a visit to the Crown Center exhibit space. Exhibits change several times a year. Visit the Crown Center events site for details.
- Schedule a visit at Kaleidoscope, a hands-on art experience for children. Family sessions are also available on Saturdays and at various times throughout the year. Check their web site for information.
- Enjoy dining at the kid-friendly Fritz’s Railroad Restaurant, where your food is served to you from a model train, or enjoy the colorful and fun Crayola Café.
- Enjoy lunch in Crown Center’s Lunch Land, an open indoor space to eat your sack lunch or a treat from one of the many restaurants located in Crown Center. Lunch Land is available on a first-come basis.
Crown Center also offers a variety of other fun activities for everyone:
- You can find more than 70 unique places to shop and eat, and fun places for your entertainment.
- Crown Center offers some of the finest dining in Kansas City!
- A walking art tour around the Crown Center complex. (Tour map is available at the Visitors Center.)
- The Coterie Theatre combines the excitement of live theatre with educational themes directed at young people and families. Named one of the Best Five Theatres in the nation for young audiences.
- Attend live, Broadway-style productions at the American Heartland Theatre.
- See the latest Hollywood movies at Crown Center Cinemas.
- When the weather is good, have lunch on Crown Center Square, an outdoor area featuring umbrella-clad tables. Seating is available on a first-come basis.
- Watch the newly renovated Crown Center Square Fountains. The fountains flow year-round, but a show set to music plays spring through fall at noon each weekday then on the hour 5-10 p.m., and weekends on the hour 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Nearby activities:
- Marvel at Kansas City’s Union Station, the largest remaining Renaissance-style train station in the United States and home to Science City. Union Station is located right across the street and is connected to Crown Center by a climate-controlled walkway.
- The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, located adjacent to the Crown Center Complex. It is the only museum in the nation devoted solely to WWI.
