Visit the Museum

FREE Admission

Open Mid-March thru Mid-December

Hours
New Extended Hours in 2025
Wednesday - Saturday, 11AM- 4pm - Sunday 1 pm to 4 pm

Location

Weston Historical Museum
601 Main Street
Weston, MO 64098

Driving Tour

Driving Tour Booklets are free at the Weston Historical Museum, the Weston Chamber and Weston City Hall. As you drive around Weston, you will see diverse architecture, antebellum homes and learn about the hardworking and fascinating people who built a major midcentury river port that adapted to the vagaries of history and is now a significant historic town.

Lewis & Clark Exhibit

Located at the foot of Main Street in the old Weston railroad depot (currently used as City Hall), the exhibit chronicles the journey of the Lewis and Clark expedition, focusing on its stop in this area on its way up the Missouri River in the summer of 1804. The exhibit explores the flora, fauna, and topography as observed by the expedition here before Weston was founded. Visitors see the list of supplies carried by the expedition and read observations made by the explorers as they passed this place. Interactive elements of the exhibit ask what visitors would take with them if they were making the same journey today. The exhibit also presents a brief history of the founding of Weston in the years following the Expedition.

The Lewis and Clark exhibit in the Depot is also the trailhead for the Weston Bluffs Trail, a 3-mile walking trail that heads south along the Missouri River, past Weston Bend State Park, to Beverly, Missouri. Along the trail are six interpretive wayside exhibits that further chronicle the Lewis and Clark Expedition as it moved along the Missouri river near what would one day become Weston.

Open 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. No admission fee. Self-guided tour.

For more information, see:

https://plattecountylandmark.com/2021/05/21/lewis-and-clark-exhibit-at-weston/

Weston Bluffs Trail

The Lewis and Clark exhibit at the Weston City Hall also serves as the trailhead for the Weston Bluffs Trail, a 3-mile walking and biking trail that follows the Missouri River from Weston to Beverly.  The Lewis and Clark theme continues along the trail, highlighted by six interpretive wayside exhibits that capture the history and natural features of this area as they would have appeared to the Lewis and Clark Expedition when it passed by in 1804.

For more information about the trail, visit https://www.platteparks.com/trail/weston-bluffs-trail/

Silk Art Museum

Visit the Silk Art Museum website

Hours of Operation

Tuesday - Saturday
Open at 11:30am

423 Main Street
Weston MO 64098

To schedule a Private Tour, please call John at 816-536-5955 or email silkartmuseum@gmail.com

Westonmo.com

Enjoy Weston

The town of Weston is a popular tourist attraction, nestled in the Missouri River bluffs a short drive north of Kansas City. With its historic downtown area that includes two museums and several galleries, a variety of appealing shops, charming Bed and Breakfasts, historic hotel and a diversity of excellent restaurants; a trip to Weston is an ideal way to spend a day or week-end.

Visit westonmo.com for more information