Kansas City Seyz Goodbye To Historic Garment District Museum

It was a lesser known attraction at best but an important symbol of this town's glorious past.

Here's a flashback to more industrious times in our cowtown history when writing clever e-mails didn't pass for productivity . . . Here's the word:

Kansas City’s Historic Garment District Museum will close permanently later this month.

The museum’s 350-garment collection, in a 1,266-square-foot space in the historic Poindexter Building, will move into storage for now — the Poindexter Building sold earlier this year.

“Leaving this space is kind of sad,” Lisa Shockley, curator of collections at the Kansas City Museum, said of the impending close, slated for Aug. 30.

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Museum dedicated to Kansas City's influential garment district closing after 2 decades

Kansas City had one of the largest garment districts in the nation, and the industry was the second-largest employer in the metro. An institution that tells the story of the downtown Garment District will close this month.