How To Spend Your Day Around Downtown Wichita


Downtown Wichita is one of the most dynamic places in the city. Downtown Wichita is the embodiment of Wichita’s vibrant culture. The Downtown area of Wichita offers desirable residential options, diverse and exciting amenities within walking distance of each other, and a futuristic environment due to a number of investments the city has seen over the last few years. 


A trip to the Downtown area of Wichita facilitates the making of an extraordinary day, filled with vibrate activities and extraordinary discoveries. Whatever your taste or preference might be Downtown has just the treat, the event and the establishment which will leave you feeling as if your day is a day well spent.    


In Downtown, you have the option of spending your day exploring the Arts and Cultural aspect of the Wichita environment. Locations in Downtown that will be perfect for this quest are the Century II Performing Arts and Convention Center, City Arts, Confluence Community Center, Mead Street Gallery, Music Theatre Wichita, HUE Gallery of Contemporary Art, Fiber Studio and Gallery XII among others.  

• The HUE Gallery is a contemporary gallery that displays works of aspiring and established artists from across the United States. At the HUE Gallery, their mission is: “to give something new to experience in the world of art.” The HUE Gallery has a wide selection of art styles on display, aiding in the creation of a unique environment with the display of its quality art works. 
• The Gallery XII is Wichita’s first cooperative gallery, which was started by 12 artists in September of 1977. Gallery XII is a non-profit cooperation and all its members are on its board of Directors. Gallery XII is a fine arts gallery, which exhibits original art in a wide range of media such as paintings, printmaking, photography, drawings, pastels, fiber art, watercolors, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and glassworks. 

Wichita is a great city with a host of entertainment and activities. However, the city of Wichita does not offer and beaches, at least not until now. Since recently there has been an establishment of a pop-up beach in the Downtown Wichita area. For those who thought that they would never get to spend a day on the beach in Wichita, Downtown has changed all that. 


The Downtown Wichita pop-up beach is situated in the ICT Pop-Up Urban Park, which is located at 121 E. Douglas Downtown Wichita. A third of the ICT Pop-Up Park is now covered in beach sand, beach chairs and umbrellas. At any given day you can find a range of kids playing in the Downtown pop-up beach, while their guardians lay close by on beach chairs watching them, or even participation in their children beach activities.  


In Downtown Wichita you have the option of treating yourself to live entertainment at any time of the day at places such as Barleycorn’s, Entrap Games, Industry Old Town, Live at the Loony Bin, Morts Cigar and Martini Bar, Public at the Brickyard, and Rock Island Live.