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For the second dinner in our 2019 History is Served: Arkansas Foodways Dinner Series, Jonathan Arrington and Jack Sundell of The Root Café presented a meal that was inspired by Arkansas’s ric ... Read More

When Little Rock became the territorial capital of Arkansas in 1821, the city was still relatively small, with around 700 people living within its boundaries. Despite its small populati ... Read More

On April 5, Executive Chef Mary Beth Ringgold stepped back into Arkansas’s Colonial days to prepare for the second dinner of Historic Arkansas Museum’s History is Served: Arkansas ... Read More

INSPIRED BY QUAPAW CUISINE: Chefs Michael Selig (left) and Gilbert Alaquinez talk about cooking traditional Quapaw recipes. To kick off our inaugural History is Served heritage dinner s ... Read More

The latest project of the museum’s conservator, Andy Zawacki, is the reproduction of an 1830s Pleasure Wagon (shown to the right). A pleasure wagon was a popular, single horse drawn carriage that  ... Read More

This recent addition to the museum’s permanent collection, Day Remembered (1955)by Carroll Cloar, is a study drawing for the painting (http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/?edan_search_value ... Read More

Historic Arkansas Museum Commissioner Frances Ross accepted the donation of a rare document on September 26, 2012. The document dates to 1820 and is a partnership agreement between Chester Ashley  ... Read More

Elizabeth Lenora Hanna Elizabeth Lenora Hanna (1916 – 2008), was born in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and lived in Lonoke at the time of her death. After receiving her degree at the George Peabody Co ... Read More

“It will go to the Historic Arkansas Museum because they focus on Arkansas artists.” This is what Wenonah Fay Holl (1915-2011) told Soirée in 2004 when asked what would happen after her death to t ... Read More

This charming painting by Henry Byrd of young Albina Lyon (1846-1871) is one of three portraits of her family hanging in the gallery exploring the Civil War in Arkansas (or the real part of the Re ... Read More