A world-class collection of American art, stunning architecture, and 120 acres of Ozark forest with five miles of trails. Admission to the museum is always free.
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Museum & Buildings
Trails and Grounds open daily sunrise to sunset.
We will be closed Monday, May 13, to prepare for the visit of Antiques Roadshow. We will return to normal hours of operation Wednesday, May 15.
This event has been canceled.
Is there a better drink pairing than good conversation?
Join us for a series on close looking and conversation on art, led by our Tyson Scholars. Come meet Dr. Erika Doss as she gives us a close look at religiously and spiritually inclined artists in our collection, including works by Agnes Pelton, Mark Rothko, and more. Intended for art experts and academic teetotalers alike, this event promises to be informative, casual, and just plain interesting.
We’ll meet in Eleven for drinks and a get-to-know-you chat, then head into the galleries. One drink is included with your ticket (non-alcoholic options available). See you there!
Tickets are $10 ($5/members), register online or with Guest Services at 479.657.2335 to reserve your spot today.
Per the CDC’s updated guidelines, we are now requiring all guests ages 2 and up and staff to wear a face covering indoors and while attending outdoor programs, except while eating or drinking. Masks will be available upon entry for those who do not have one. Guests may remove their face covering to eat or drink, and will be socially distanced from guests not in their party.
Erika Doss is an art historian whose multiple books include Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy (1995), Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999), Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001), Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (2010), American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries (2017), and Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (forthcoming). The recipient of several Fulbright awards, Doss has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. As a Tyson Scholar of American Art for 2021-22, her research project is titled “Troubling Memorials: American Reckoning with the Stuff of History.”
