Museums and Culture

The AMOD has many hands-on, fun exhibits and they change exhibits frequently. They often have special events and visiting exhibitors. Check their site to see what's going on this month.

The Arkansas Arts center is the center for Arts in Little Rock. Traveling exhibits, plays and music can all be found here.

The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum has many artifacts, but the greatest is a 311-foot submarine that is open for tours.

The Capitol Building stands 230 feet tall featuring a circular central drum tower that is capped with a dome and cupola. The building was built over a century ago as a replica of the U.S. Capitol Building. Find out how to schedule a guided tour or you can tour yourself.

A Presidential library is not a library where you can go check out the latest John Grisham. It's a building meant for preserving and making available the papers, records and other historical materials of U.S. Presidents.

Little Rock Central High is known all over the world for the groundbreaking desegregation battle that took place there in 1957. Today, the school is a functioning high school and a national historic site with a museum and sculpture garden.

Information on touring Heifer International Center's Green Building. This is one of the greenest buildings in the nation and it's located in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Our Governor's Mansion was originally completed in 1950 during Governor Sidney McMath's term. It has been the home of all Arkansas Governors since.

The Historic Arkansas Museum, formerly known as Arkansas Territorial Restoration, is a historic site museum located in the heart of downtown Little Rock. It features some of the oldest buildings in the state, on their original sites, including five pre-Civil War houses.

The museum collects, preserves and interprets Arkansas military history from its territorial period to the present.

Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

The Old State House is Arkansas' original state capitol and the oldest surviving state capitol west of the Mississippi River. It now houses a museum of Arkansas history.

Visiting the only surviving cotton gin and see what life was like on a cotton settlement in Scott, AR at the Plantation Agriculture Museum State Park.

The Toltec Mounds are a working archeological site. It's not a traditional museum, but the visitor's center and interpretive guides can teach you all about Arkansas history and archeology.

Visit the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center in the River Market in Little Rock, Arkansas. It's a center to learn more about wildlife in Arkansas and what is being done to preserve it.