Arkansas Museums
Arkansas’s museums
Arkansas’s museums reflect the wealthy diversity of your express. From high-quality art to folk arts, from modest county museums to Country wide Park Service sites, in the mountains to your Delta, the state’s museums reveal who we’re and what we value. The oldest fine art museum inside the point out, the Arkansas Arts Middle, homes … Continue reading
Personal Philanthropy – An American Custom
Private philanthropy is an American custom. Out country is full of public structures gifted by prosperous folks who believe that their achievement comes from your American process and the strength and independence of its people today. A single example treated to a whole chapter in Amity Shlaes book on the excellent melancholy, The Forgotten Man. … Continue reading
Bella Vista Historical Museum
Bella Vista was originally planned as a summer recreation resort. Half a century later, the resort began transforming into a graduated retirement community. In 2006, citizens voted to incorporate, setting the stage for the next transformation for Bella Vista. Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood Bella Vista sits in the Ozark Plateau geographical region where many … Continue reading
Baxter County Heritage Museum Gassville, Arkansas
Former mayor of McGehee, AR, Rosalie Gould will be here to show her collection of artifacts and documents from the Jerome & Rohwer Japanese Internment camps. Ms. Gould was Instrumental in getting the Arkansas sites on the National Historic Register. She has the largest private collection of artifacts and documents from the Arkansas camps. Ms. … Continue reading
Band Museum in Arkansas
This beautifully refinished distinctive old building, circa 1890, is now home of the only museum dedicated entirely to the history of band music and instruments. Established by Jerry Horne, a band instrument collector for many years, the museum displays rare, old and unusual instruments and memorabilia from one of the most extensive collections anywhere in … Continue reading
Aviation Cadet Museum
Tis the season for Christmas shopping and holiday events, which easily leads me to think of Eureka Springs. With its Victorian architecture, what other town could better capture the charms of the season? An artist town at heart, Eureka is a great place to peruse galleries for unique paintings, pottery, jewelry, sculpture and more. Art … Continue reading
Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, founded in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Pine Bluff in 1971, is operated for the benefit of all citizens of Southeast Arkansas. The mission of the Arts & Science Center is to provide opportunities for the practice, teaching, performance, enjoyment and understanding of the arts … Continue reading
Arkansas State University Museum
The Arkansas State University Museum, located on the Arkansas State University (ASU) campus in Jonesboro (Craighead County), holds significant historic, archaeological, and natural history collections hailing primarily from the state of Arkansas. One of the first museums in the Southeast to be accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), it is the largest and … Continue reading
Arkansas River Visitor Center
The Arkansas River Visitor Center, dedicated on August 20, 1985, was designed to acquaint visitors with the Arkansas River, its history and culture, and its transformation into the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The visitor center is located in Russellville (Pope County) on Lock and Dam Road, three miles west of Highway 7. The visitor … Continue reading
Arkansas Railroad Museum
This oil-burning steam locomotive is the 819. It was built way back in 1942 in this very building, which was the Cotton Belt Route machine shop for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company. This very building, by the way, is at 1720 Port Road in Pine Bluff, and it now houses the Arkansas Railroad Museum. … Continue reading