Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum Visit
In April of 2019, on my big cross country trip from Washington State back home to Florida, I visited the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute, Kansas. I own versions of both the Sikorsky S-38 and Sikorsky S-39 seaplanes that they used on their African safaris, and have had a fascination with the story of their lives, and their adventures for a long, long time. So, I was excited to visit the museum and get a first hand glimpse at the exhibits and personal mementos that made up their lives. Come on along and check it out.
All books, pictures, DVD's and knick knacks in this video are available online in the Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum gift shop.
For more information on the museum, click here.
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Around Kansas - Osa and Martin Johnson - December 9, 2015
(Frank) And we're back again. Don't we have fun here? (Deb) We do. Now we're going to go from a wild man to some wild beast. So have you visited the Osa and Martin Johnson Museum down at Chanute, Kansas? (Frank) No. (Deb) It's a wonderful museum and I had not been there until a couple years ago. Jackie Zimmer is the director there. And her husband, remember the bookstore? (Frank) Lloyd. (Deb) Lloyd, our dear friend. They are just a wonderful couple. And she does an amazing job. They actually had a film crew from, oh shoot, the Czech Republic, I believe it was. This young couple who were making a film about Osa and Martin Johnson. And they came to Kansas and interviewed Gary Clark and lots of folks. And of course, Lloyd and Jackie helped them do all kinds of stuff. And I was invited to a reception at their house to meet this lovely couple. And so maybe one day they'll be back in Kansas and we'll share then. But we'll share information on their film project and how that's going. But again this is a wonderful cozy place to go. Take the kids, take the whole family. There's something for everybody. And the library is in the same building. (Frank) Huh, well you can actually see Teter Rock and the museum all in one fell swoop if you like. (Deb) That's right. It's conveniently located. And Osawatomie is not that much far either. So, you can hit all three of these spots in one day. (Frank) Hey there you go. (Deb) At least one weekend. (Frank) A day trip. (Deb) A day trip, that's right. Let's take a look. In the first half of the 20th century an American couple, Martin and Osa Johnson, captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back
film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands. Osa Leighty was born and raised in Chanute, Kansas. Martin grew up in Lincoln and Independence. Martin took part as a crew member and cook in Jack London's 1907–1909 voyage across the Pacific aboard the Snark. After that, he started a traveling road show that toured the United States displaying photographs and artifacts collected on the voyage. He met Osa Leighty while passing through her hometown. Osa later penned a bestseller, I Married Adventure, which sums up the colorful couple's life. Television's first wildlife series, Osa Johnson's The Big Game Hunt premiered in 1953. The Walt Disney Company was the first organization to license Johnson film from the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum for the 1976 program Filming Nature's Mysteries. Disney again licensed Johnson film as part of the Rafiki's Planet Watch at Disney's Animal Kingdom when it opened April 22, 1998. The architects and Disney team developing a new safari lodge borrowed Johnson films from the museum in 1997 and 1998 for research and inspiration. Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge opened April 16, 2001. Included is an ongoing exhibit of 36 Johnson photographs. Martin and Osa Johnson were the namesake, inspiration and background story for the 2006-2010 Martin + Osa clothing line and national chain of 28 Martin + Osa stores launched by American Eagle Outfitters. The Safari Museum was formed in 1961 to preserve the Johnson's achievements and to encourage further research into their fields of study. The museum started with a core collection of the Johnson's films, photographs, manuscripts, articles, books, and personal belongings donated by Osa's mother but has grown and flourished since then. The museum shares the beautiful old railroad depot with the Chanute Public Library. In 1998 the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum was named by the History Channel Traveler website as one of the Top-Ten Historic Sites for Valentine's Day that captures romance, American-style.
(Deb) Well we have had fun today. (Frank) Hey, don't we always? (Deb) Don't we always? (Frank) Thank you for joining us. Anyway, we have to get outta here. So I'm Frank. (Deb) I'm Deb. (Frank) And we'll see you somewhere... (Both) Around Kansas.
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Stars Register Fame And Osa Johnson Flies To Africa.
Stars register fame and Osa Johnson flies to Africa.
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Across The World With Mr & Mrs Johnson, 1930
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Martin Johnson and Osa Johnson pose with two young chimpanzees and two African men.
Martin Johnson and Osa Johnson (photographers, marketers, naturalists and authors) pose with two African men. The Johnsons are holding two young chimpanzees. Martin Johnson Introduces the two African men to the crowd, saying, these two Swahili boys came with us from Africa to take care of our animals. The African men speak to the camera in Swahili. Location: United States. Date: 1932.
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In the Wake of a Long-ago Flying Boat
In the first half of the 20th century an American couple, Martin and Osa Johnson, captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands.
The base camp for their Sabah explorations was at Johnsonville on the Kinabatangan River, where I met a man whose father, as a child, had known the Johnsons and their flying boat The Spirit of Africa and Borneo, which played a key role in producing footage for their feature Borneo, released in 1937.
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