“Chinggis Khaan: Bringing the Legend to Life,” the latest exhibition to open at Kansas City’s Union Station, transports guests around the globe and back eight centuries to witness how a once-feared leader is seen by some today as a model of innovation, tolerance and pride to a vast population of the world.

This tour features nearly 300 objects, including rare and sophisticated weapons, costumes, jewels, ornaments, instruments and numerous other relics and elaborate artifacts presenting a more complete image of the legendary leader.

With hundreds of artifacts from Chinggis’s 13th-century empire, the exhibition is the largest such collection ever to tour.