Historic Arkansas Museum
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The Historic Arkansas Museum, sometimes called the HAM, is a state history museum
in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas
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The museum maintains gallery space and a number of historic buildings original to the site, as well as log structures transported from around the state. It was previously known as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, but the name was changed when new exhibit space and renovations were completed in the early 2000s. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...
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The museum maintains gallery space and a number of historic buildings original to the site, as well as log structures transported from around the state. It was previously known as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, but the name was changed when new exhibit space and renovations were completed in the early 2000s. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program.