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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

By Carey Voss, Curator of Exhibits, and Victoria Chandler, Arkansas Made Researcher Since it is necessary to physically distance ourselves from others, this is a perfect time to reflect on be ... Read More

By Carey Voss, Curator of Exhibits, and Victoria Chandler, Arkansas Made Researcher Experiences of beauty provoke emotional and physical responses that allow us to escape uncomfortable fee ... Read More

By Carey Voss, Curator of Exhibits, and Victoria Chandler, Arkansas Made Researcher For those of us at Historic Arkansas Museum, this week marks one month of cancelled events, telecommuting, an ... Read More

By Kathryn Bryles Prior to La Salle’s voyage down the Mississippi River and into Texas, the interior of North America was a vast blank space on European-made maps. Cartographers used  ... Read More

David Carpenter Sculptor David Carpenter’s desire to find comfort in chaos drives him to work through several iterations. Carpenter explains, “My attempt is not to map what is u ... Read More

Join us for the opening reception of two new exhibits and live music by John Willis and the Late Romantics (https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Willis-Music/274991735863887), described by th ... Read More

The Recent Acquisitions exhibition will feature objects acquired for the museum’s permanent collection from 2012 to late 2014. The exhibition includes both 2-D and 3-D historical artifacts a ... Read More