SAVE OUTDOOR SCULPTURE

Take a drive through Kansas and enjoy thousands of outdoor sculptures.

More than 200 organizations and thousands of volunteers inventoried historic and contemporary outdoor sculpture across the nation for Save Outdoor Sculpture! or SOS! , a program jointly sponsored by the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property.

In the 1990s Betty Lu Duncan, state program coordinator and a Kansas Historical Society board member, worked with other Historical Society representatives and solicited support statewide to identify and document outdoor sculptures across Kansas.

Goals of the project include continuing promotion of preservation and maintenance of these artworks. To date, more than 1,000 sculptures in Kansas have been added to the Smithsonian database and many are included in the Kansas Historic Resources Inventory (KHRI).