Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie
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The Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie is here to show you how the prairie pioneers lived, worked and played. From the field to the home, school to church, and, of course, hunting.
The exhibits featured throughout the 20,000 square foot main museum building display all aspects of prairie life, with a heavy focus on the agrarian culture embraced by the people who settled the area between 1880 and 1920. Guests can see early tools, plows, and other farming implements, and a steam engine and tractor collection. New to the collection is the Stuttgart Tractor, the first four-wheel drive articulating tractor mass-produced right here in Stuttgart. A new exhibit highlights the history of agriculture here, from the earliest days of rice growing to the implementation of soybeans, and how those crops grown in local fields feed the world.
Both our Prairie Village and the buildings on our grounds demonstrate early prairie settlement life, including an original one-room schoolhouse and outhouse, replicas of a late 1800’s prairie house and the first church built by Stuttgart’s founding family, as well as an exhibit highlighting the history of Stuttgart’s fire company. Our waterfowl wing showcases the Grand Prairie’s rich hunting, call making, and conservation traditions, with extensive decoy and call collections, and workbenches used to craft calls made by Chick Major and Butch Richenback. The wing is also home to 1,000 year-old Native American duck effigy pottery, a one-of-a-kind “Coat of Many Feathers,” and the Arkansas Waterfowler Hall of Fame.
There’s something of interest for everyone at The Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie. We hope you'll come see us soon!