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By Victoria Garrett Chandler, Arkansas Made Researcher It is common enough for curators of any 19th century historical collection to encounter locks and strands of human hair. Many remnants  ... Read More

By Carey Voss, Curator of Exhibits George Pitts feather crown, Goose and duck feathers, Pulaski County, Arkansas, c. 1924, Approx. 3" diameter x 1.5” thick, Collection of Historic Arkansas M ... Read More

Contemporary Arkansas: A Question of How We Got Here Sometimes, if you look deeply into the context of an artwork or object, the invisible stories of an entire people or region will emerge. I ... Read More

Where We’re From Based on dialect, anthropologists and linguists divided Arkansas into two broad regions. In the hilly Ozark highlands, most folks spoke a version of what is called Midland ... Read More

Just for the love of the work... Makers Arley Payne, Arthur Arlington Castera, and “the elusive Ex-Confederate" certainly fit Ethel C. Simpson’s summarization of early settlers of the state as  ... Read More

When British Naturalist Thomas Nuttall arrived at the Arkansas Post, he commented that a particular Arkansan“did not appear to have had much acquaintance with the civilized world.” This perhaps al ... Read More

What makes Arkansas, Arkansas? One of the traditional cornerstones of Arkansas folk culture is the futility of trying to classify the inhabitants of this state as any one “type” -- Ark ... Read More

What makes Arkansas, Arkansas? As part of the Arkansas Arts Center’s 62nd Annual Delta Exhibition, Brian Lang, Chief Curator of the AAC, asked Historic Arkansas Museum to create a themed g ... Read More

Stacy Hurst, secretary of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, announced today that Swannee Bennett, director and chief curator of Historic Arkansas Museum (HAM), is stepp ... Read More

by Jessica Corder, Assistant Curator From July 10th through December 31st, HAM’s Second Floor Gallery will feature Split Infinity, a collection of paintings by artist Spencer Purinton. Purin ... Read More