Speakers Bureau

To promote the many exhibits, attractions and events at Union Station, we offer a variety of outreach opportunities to the greater Kansas City community, including our popular Speakers Bureau.

Relive Union Station’s historic past. Learn how the Station operates today and get a glimpse into our future. Invite a guest speaker from the Union Station Speakers Bureau to your next event.

The Speakers Bureau program is also an excellent tool to enhance your group members’ enjoyment of our spring 2008 blockbuster – Bodies Revealed.

Speaker's Bureau

• Free* presentation at your facility
• Complete and return Speakers Bureau Request form
• Request should be made a minimum of two weeks in advance
• Minimum number of participants: 20

*Union Station is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit and receives no public funding.

We encourage your organization to make a tax-deductible honorarium donation to Union Station to help off-set the costs of the Speakers Bureau Program. (Suggested donation for Union Station Speakers Bureau presentation is $100.)

A Union Station staff member will come to your meeting or event and make a 20-50 minute presentation to your group. We come to your regular meeting facilities, within a 60-minute drive from Union Station (as calculated by MapQuest).

The Union Station Speakers Bureau presentation provides an overview of the Station’s majestic past, its misunderstood present, and its optimistic future.

If desired, the speaker can also give an overview of Bodies Revealed and discuss what’s in the exhibit, how the specimens are collected and preserved, and touch on the exhibit’s relevance and importance from a health and science perspective. You’ll also learn about the significance of Union Station’s role in bringing this incredible exhibit to Kansas City and what it means for the economy in our community.

We have several speakers available and can come out virtually anytime (days, evenings and weekends included), so please indicate the date and time you would like to arrange the presentation for on the Speakers Bureau Request Form. We’ll call you in the unlikely event there’s a conflict.

For our recordkeeping purposes, we just ask that you download, print, fill out and return the form below. We do not add you to our calendar until we receive the form, so please get this back to us as soon as possible!!

Speakers Bureau Request Form (pdf)
Speakers Bureau Request Form (doc)

The form helps us appropriately prepare for your presentation, facilitates our speaker’s on-time arrival, allows us to adjust the presentation as necessary and lets us know what technological items we need to bring for the presentation.

If you have audio/visual equipment available, our speakers will use a laptop computer with DVD player and a projector to display the computer and DVD images on a wall or screen, and would appreciate your venue making those available. If you don't have access to a laptop and/or projector, we can bring ours – please just indicate that on the form. As far as sound, we ask that your group arrange for a microphone, only if you feel one will be necessary.

Below you’ll find information for your invitations, meeting reminders and/or program or agenda. Feel free to use this information as you like, including in member communications and/or a news release to invite prospective members to visit your group and enjoy the guest speaker.

Customizable Program Information

About Union Station Kansas City, Inc.
Union Station is Kansas City’s signature historical landmark and a civic asset. Once heralded as one of the busiest passenger rail hub in the nation, the Station fell into to disrepair during the 1970s and 80s as the popularity of air travel soared.

Renovated and reopened to the public in 1999, Union Station plays a key role in Kansas City’s regional history. A voter approved bistate cultural sales tax, the first of its kind in the country, funded nearly half of the $250 million renovation. The remaining money was raised through private donations and federal funding.

Today, Union Station receives no public funding and is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Current operating costs are funded by private donations, general admission and theater ticketing, memberships, grants, commercial space leases and facility rental. 

Union Station, the meticulously restored facility is - in and of itself - a historical artifact and is open daily to the public for viewing at no charge. Its maintenance is vital to the preservation of Kansas City's regional history. Union Station also serves as a showcase for Smithsonian Institute and other international traveling museum exhibits and houses a science center, Science City. The entertainment district at Union Station includes a live theater, a 3D giant screen movie theater, shops and restaurants. The Station’s reopening has also helped stimulate the area’s urban renewal.

More about Bodies Revealed

Bodies Ticketing Information

For more information about the Union Station Speakers Bureau, contact:

Rachel Toledo-Miller
Community Relations and Marketing Manager
Phone: (816) 460-2259 | E-mail: outreach@unionstation.org