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Welcome to the Shiloh Museum!

Photo by John Bachman

Located in downtown Springdale, Arkansas, the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History is a regional history museum focusing on the Northwest Arkansas Ozarks. The museum takes its name from the pioneer community of Shiloh, which became Springdale in the 1870s.


Most of what you'll see at the museum highlights the real shapers of Ozark history - the everyday men, women, and children who lived in our towns and rural communities. We tell their stories through a variety of exhibits on native peoples, pioneers, the Civil War, the fruit and timber industries, and traditional folklife. There’s plenty of fun for all ages - you can use a grinding stone, try on some old-timey clothes, listen to folk music, or sit and play a game of checkers.

Along with exhibits, you can explore six historic buildings on the museum grounds, including a log cabin, a barn, and a town home of the 1940s. Shaded walking paths and picnic tables offer a chance to relax and remember a time when life moved at a slower pace.

The Shiloh Museum also houses a research library with an extensive collection of over 700,000 photographs of Ozark life. We offer programs, lectures, and changing exhibits on a variety of regional history topics. The museum is less than three miles from the interstate, not far off the beaten path.

Step back in time with a visit to the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. We’ll be glad to see you.

Hours

Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day

How to Find Us

From Interstate 540, take the Elm Springs Road exit and travel east 2.7 miles to Main Street. Turn right and the museum will be one block on your left.

Driving Map

News and Events

Visit our blog.

Subscribe to our podcast feed or download individual podcast and vidcast files.


New Exhibits
  • Scenes of Boone County, through April 26.
  • Tech-Knowledge-Gee!, through June 7. Watch our vidcast for a behind-the-scenes look at how the exhibit was created.
  • Play Ball!, through July 26.
Upcoming Events

  • Opening April 29. Following the Crop, a photo exhibit of life at Springdale's migrant labor camp in the 1940s to 1960s, from the cabins where the workers lived to the schools, clinics, and social activities provided by aid groups.

  • May 3, 1:00 p.m. "The History of the Arkansas-Missouri Baseball League," a program by Jerry Hogan of Fayetteville.

  • May 10, 10:00 a.m. Community premiere of Sunken Dreams: William “Coin” Harvey and Monte Ne, a documentary by Nathan Crowder, graduate student in broadcast journalism at the University of Arkansas.

  • May 21, noon. A program on butterflies by Lori Spencer, author of Arkansas Butterflies and Moths

  • May 27, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Quilting demonstration by members of Quilters United in Learning Together (Q.U.I.L.T.). They will be working on a pieced quilt with appliqued center and borders, set up on a large floor frame similar to the way Ozark women quilted in the old days.

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Shiloh Museum of Ozark History • 118 W. Johnson Avenue • Springdale, AR 72764 • 479-750-8165
shiloh@springdaleark.org Copyright © 2008 Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. All rights reserved.
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