Arabia Steamboat Museum
The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market. The partners of River Salvage Inc., who excavated the Arabia and opened the museum, claim to have the largest single collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.
| Established | November 13, 1991 |
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| Location | River Market, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39.109778°N 94.581485°W |
| Type | History museum |
| Collections | Cargo of steamboat that sank in 1856 |
| Collection size | 200 tons |
| Website | 1856 |
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