We Walk in Two Worlds: The Caddo, Osage and Quapaw in Arkansas
Permanent Exhibit
Historic Arkansas Museum
Learn the story of Arkansas's first people, in their own words. Those words and more than 150 objects tell teh history of the Caddo, Osage and Quapaw--their arrival, their lives here, their forced removal and how their traditions continue today.
Walking tours
MCHGS
870-563-6161
Daily opportunity for driving and guided walking tours of historic area.
The Cotton Highway/Sans Souci Park
daylight hours
Osceola/South Mississippi County
870-563-2281
Daily opportunity for a driving tour of 36 historical markers featuring the cotton, musical & Civil War heritage of Osceola area; Mississippi River overlook and boat ramp featured at Sans Souci park.
King Biscuit Time
Each weekday
12:15 p.m.
- 12:45 p.m.
DCC Visitors Center
141 Cherry Street
Helena-West Helena
“King Biscuit Time,” the nation’s longest-running blues radio program, is hosted each weekday at the DCC Visitor’s Center by “Sunshine” Sonny Payne, from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.
Admission is free; the public is welcome to attend.
“Delta Sounds,” hosted by DCC Assistant Director Terry Buckalew and Payne, is broadcast each Friday at 1 to 1:30 p.m.
Gallery hours at the DCC Visitors Center at 141 Cherry Street and the nearby DCC Depot at 95 Missouri Street are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
For more information, interested persons can contact the Delta Cultural Center at (870) 338-4350 or toll free at (800) 358-0972, visit the DCC online at www.deltaculturalcenter.com, or email info@deltaculturalcenter.com.
Unprivate Mail: Arkansas Postcards & Cryptic Messages
February 18 through September 26, 2010
Historic Arkansas Museum
501-324-9351
Personal postcards are not private mail; they are open to anyone’s curious glance. This exhibit features over a hundred postcards from the first half of the twentieth century. It showcases the engaging glimpses of familiar and unusual Arkansas sites and the writer’s often tantalizing cryptic messages, crammed onto half of a paper rectangle.
Save the Flags Preservation Project
Ongoing
Fundraising Project
Beginning in 2011, the Old State House Museum will mark the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with five years of exciting exhibits and programs. The museum’s goal is to conserve two newly-acquired Arkansas Confederate battle flags by 2012, in time for our second Sesquicentennial exhibit. You can help the Old State House Museum protect these flags, ensuring their survival for future generations. To find out more about the Save the Flags project, see the link above.
Old School Days: Facebook Interactive
Ongoing
For Facebook Fans of the Old State House Museum
Are you planning a fieldtrip with your students to the Old State House Museum? Will your family tour the Old State House Museum soon? Or did you visit the Old State House Museum long ago?
This is your chance to make Old State House Museum history! Post photographs of your visit to the Old State House Museum and let us know when you came to see us.
Historic Walking Tour
TBD
- TBD
Commences on "the Square"
(870) 741-3312
Seasonal Historic walking tour of the Harrison Historic District, both Guided (weekly) and self guided (daily). Self guided brochures provided. The guded tour takes approx. 1 1/2 hrs and includes the fully restored Lyric Theater and 1929 Hotel Seville.
Buried Dreams:
Rogers Historical Museum
479-621-1154
Exhibit of photographs, objects, and a documentary of Monte Ne, a fascinating small town founded as a resort community by the Free Silver crusader William H. " Coin" Harvey.
Twilight Tales
5 p.m.
Basin Park
479 253-9703
Street theater performance of exciting scenes and colorful characters from the early days of Eureka Springs.
Exhibit 100 Years of Scouting: Celebrating the Adventure & Continuing the Journey
Through September 13, 2010
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m.
The Old State House Museum celebrates 100 years of scouting in Arkansas with this traveling exhibit from the Boy Scouts of America, Arkansas Chapter.
Exhibit Badges, Bandits and Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice
Through March 6, 2011
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m
Badges, Bandits and Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice explores the state’s history of crime, law enforcement, courts, and prisons from pre-territorial days to the mid-1980s. The exhibit includes compelling artifacts and photographs donated by the Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Department of Correction, as well as objects loaned by other institutions and individuals, and those from the Old State House Museum’s own collections.
Exhibit Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation
Through March 4, 2012
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun 1-5 p.m.
The Old State House Museum's exhibit, Arkansas/Arkansaw: A State and Its Reputation, sheds light on the evolution of Arkansas’s hillbilly image. The exhibit reveals the early development of a dual image, with Arkansawyers being portrayed as coarse, illiterate, and violent backwoodsmen on one hand, while also lifted up as noble frontiersmen—independent, honest and humble.
Brooks Blevins, curator of the exhibit, is the Noel Boyd Associate Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State and Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image.
History of Mississippi County
Museum at 209 W. Hale St
870-563-6161
Year-round displays & records of Mississippi County history, esp. early cotton and agriculture.
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture - Slavery and Law in Arkansas
Friday, August 6, 2010
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
This presentation will consider the law as a force that shaped the history of slavery in Arkansas as well as a valuable source for understanding how Arkansas’s masters and slaves experienced the institution. Kelly Jones offers a look at the way in which the legislators and courts of Arkansas struggled to define humans as property despite the many ways in which daily realities and the actions of the slaves themselves complicated that effort.
A native of Conway County, Arkansas, Kelly Jones received a Bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006, and a Master’s in history from the University of North Texas in 2008. She is now a PhD student in history at the University of Arkansas, under the direction of Dr. Jeannie Whayne. Her research focus is the topic of slavery in Arkansas.
Admission to each program is free. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch; beverages are provided.
Exhibit Opening - The Fine Art of Jazz
Thursday, September 1, 2010 to Friday, January 7, 2011
West 9th and Broadway
The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center is proud to present The Fine Art of Jazz, a traveling exhibit produced by Exhibits USA and the Mid-America Arts Alliance. The exhibit highlights the phenomenal sounds of the modern Kansas City jazz scene. Featuring photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Dan White, the exhibit will also showcase Arkansas jazz greats in images, objects, and sound.
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture - Fent and Pete: Arkansas’s Southwestern Humor
Friday, September 17, 2010
Noon - 1 p.m.
Arkansas schoolchildren know C. F. M. Noland as the guy who carried the 1836 state constitution to Washington, and adults know him as the man who killed the governor’s nephew in a duel. Not many people today, though, remember him as one of the nation’s best known writers for a few antebellum years. Noland was famous, though briefly, for his humorous writing and his creation of an Ozarks character who commented freely on life in Arkansas and beyond.
After finishing high school in El Dorado, Arkansas, George Lankford received degrees from LSU, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Indiana University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in folklore in 1975. He returned to Arkansas, where he taught for twenty-five years at Arkansas College (now Lyon College) in Batesville. In his teaching career he taught courses in anthropology, religion, Bible, local history (Ozarks), and folklore. Lankford retired in 2001 from Lyon, where he was the Pauline M. and Brooks Bradley Professor in the Social Sciences and chair of the Social Science Division. He has published a number of books and articles on Indian topics and on Arkansas history and culture.
Admission to each program is free. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch; beverages are provided.
Big Boo!seum Bash
Saturday, October 31, 2010
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center
501 West Ninth Street
A safe and free alternative to trick or treating, the Greater Little Rock Museum Consortium hosts Big Boo!seum Bash at the downtown Little Rock museums. Games, prizes, and candy at each stop. Stay tuned for more details.
Holiday Open House
Sunday, December 5, 2010
2:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
West 9th and Broadway Streets
Celebrate the holidays at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Check back for more information.
Kwanzaa 2010: Nia (Purpose)
Thursday, December 30
12 pm
- 1 pm
West 9th and Broadway Streets
On this day, we pledge to build and develop our communities, schools and families.
The Kwanzaa festivities are in conjunction with Garbo Hearne of Pyramid Art and Books.
Kwanzaa, a cultural holiday stemming from African traditions, has become a staple of celebrating unity, community and family. There are seven principles of Kwanzaa: Umoja (Unita), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Faith).