The Culture Lab
Exhibitions at M-AAA Headquarters
The Culture Lab is our space for experiments, exhibitions, and events at our headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. The Culture Lab allows us to showcase programs in the vibrant Kansas City Crossroads neighborhood and participate in the city’s First Friday celebrations.
Past projects have included music presentations, dance, theatre performance, fine art exhibitions, and humanities projects. Traveling exhibitions from our program ExhibitsUSA frequently launch their tours here.
For upcoming exhibitions in the Culture Lab, please view our calendar.
Culture Lab News
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Interview with Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales about Her Traveling Exhibition Through Darkness to Light
Find Out MoreThey left during the middle of the night—often carrying little more than guidance of the north star. An estimated 100,000 enslaved people between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865 chose to embark on this journey in…
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Underground Railroad Photo Exhibition Opens in Kansas City June 6
Find Out MorePhotographer Jeanine Michna-Bales to Attend First Friday at Culture Lab On Friday, June 6, Kansas City audiences are invited to experience a rare visual exploration of the Underground Railroad. Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad will be…
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On View in the Culture Lab: Elisa Harkins’s Teach Me a Song
Find Out MoreElisa Harkins’s Teach Me A Song will be on view at M-AAA’s Culture Lab beginning January 13 and continuing through April 7, 2025. Teach Me A Song is a single channel video with sound, playing from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. each day. Location: Mid-America…
Pictured: Culture Lab installation of works by Sukanya Mani. Photography by Elizabeth Stehling Snell.