Old State House Museum — Attraction in Little Rock

Free entry, but you should leave a donation in the box. Great museum housed in what used to be the old capitol building/governor's mansion. Excellent displays of the history of the building and Arkansas government. Also contains exhibits on natural history, paleontology, cultural artifacts dating to antiquity from many cultures, a big machine gun confiscated from the back of Bonnie & Clyde's car, and a kid friendly selfie booth. There are also displays of ball gowns from former Arkansas first ladies including Hillary Clinton and a room full of memorabilia from each Arkansas governor's election campaign. And, of course, there is a display dedicated to the Clinton presidential campaign. The museum also a railroad room for children and revolving exhibits of state artists/notables. When we went, there was a display of guitars from an Arkansas guitar maker. Highly recommended for a low cost (or free if you're truly strapped) outing with the kids or without. Front yard and fountain is excellent for bridal and...

This place is free to visit at this moment in time due to the works they are doing on the ground floor, but how great is inside, if like us, you are into history and so many more things:

lots of information about the past times in this part of the world and what building used to house lots of information upstairs on more local history, traditions, beside the difference the woman were trying to create here 100 years ago, just like the Sufragette in the UK unexpectantly, we discovered a room dedicated to music - simply amazing.

Of course we could not stop ourselves from buying some of their amazing mugs from their shop.

I know, the place smells of old - but is the smell of...

The museum was very interesting. The movie was not showing at the time we were there, but the gentleman at the desk gave us a brief discussion of the history. Then we proceeded in our own time enjoying the museum. We were particularly interested in the information about the repairs done on the building and foundation. If you enjoy music from the '60s, you will want to spend plenty of time in the display of beautiful guitars and pictures of performers. There are also gowns worn by former first ladies of Arkansas. There are many other displays that you may want to see when you visit, so be sure and allow enough time to see everything of...