Eureka Springs Historical Museum

05/28/2026

The Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library and Eureka Springs Historical Museum are set up at the Berryville Community Center for the Berryville Summer Bash this evening! Stop by and say hello, sign up for summer reading, and check out some primitive 3D technology on a stereoviewer from 1902!

05/25/2026

It’s Mystery 🔎Monday

Can you identify this object found at the museum?
This is a close up photo of one of the unique pieces we have here, we’ll reveal the mystery next Monday!

Let us know in the comments if you know what this is!

05/25/2026

05/25/2026

Today, we honor and remember those who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Pictured here is a photo from the museum collections showing a meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a fraternal organization consisting of veterans from the Union Army, Navy, and Marines who served in the Civil War. The men are standing on the porch and steps of the 1886 Crescent Hotel, and the photo looks to be from about the 1890s, when GAR national membership was said to total over 400,000 men.

05/25/2026

Mystery 🔎Monday is revealed!
It’s a foldable camera that belonged to Cora Pinkley Call. Cora was a lifetime resident of Carroll County she was a writer, naturalist, herbalist, folklorist and Eureka Springs historian. Born in 1892 Cora was diagnosed with scleroderma at the age of 12. Her prognosis was eventual paralysis and a short life expectancy. Due to her condition she left school and educated herself through reading books and exploring nature, she became an expert on the flora and fauna of the Ozarks. Pinkley’s nature walks were therapeutic and her health improved although she was never completely cured of her illness.
She married Miles Oliver Call in 1914 and despite doctors warnings that her health problems would prohibit her from becoming a mother she and Miles had five children.
Since childhood she always aspired to be a writer, which she accomplished as well as establishing the Ozark Writers Guild in 1935.

05/22/2026

Get out your dancing shoes and please help us spread the word - this is going to be out of this world! 👀

05/18/2026

It’s Mystery 🔎Monday

Can you identify this object found in our museum’s collection?
This is a close up photo of one of the unique pieces we have on display, we’ll reveal the mystery next Monday!

Let us know in the comments if you know what this is!

05/18/2026

Mystery 🔎Monday is revealed! It’s the bag 💼 belonging to the Arkansas Traveler figurine created by artist Mary Jane Beggs in 1976. You can find this doll and dozens more in the Pioneer Room on the second floor of the museum.

05/16/2026

They’re back baby! Retro candy 🍭 ci******es 🚬 and nostalgic chewing gum flavors will take you back to your youth. Relive the good old days with vintage style treats from our gift shop here at the Eureka Springs Historical Museum located at 95 S. Main Street in historic downtown Eureka Springs ✨ ******es

05/15/2026

The Eureka Springs Historical Museum is pleased to announce that the recipient of this year's Louis and Elsie Freund Scholarship for Young Artists is the talented Eureka Springs High School senior Isabella Reese Watkins.

When Louis and Elsie first arrived in Eureka Springs in the late 1930s, they saw the potential for a robust arts community, and they quickly set about making that happen. They saved Carrie Nation's "Hatchet Hall" from demolition, established the very first art school in town, led the painting of the downtown Centennial Mural, and were instrumental in the formation of the Eureka Springs Guild of Artists and Craftspeople, Eureka Springs Historical Museum, Carroll County Community Foundation, Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, and so much more. We are proud to honor the Freunds' legacy by presenting this $1000 scholarship to Isabella Reese Watkins for college education in the arts.

Thanks to our scholarship selection committee members for their time and expertise, Joanie Kratzer for the photo, and museum director Jeff Danos (pictured) for presenting the award. We are so proud of all of our graduating high school students and wish them the very best of success!