The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum is located in Atchison, Kansas. This historic Gothic Revival home, built in 1861 by Amelia’s grandfather, Judge Alfred G. Otis, overlooks the Missouri River. It was here that Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator, was born in 1897 and spent much of her early life.
Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
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Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 15:30
Closed March 27th, Easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas, January 1st
Admission fee
Gift shop
Aircraft collection
| – | Lockheed L-10E Electra |
The birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is now a museum featuring memorabilia and artifacts about Amelia Earhart.
Earhart was the first aviatrix (female pilot) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.