2026 Events

January 20 – Movies at MacArthur, Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

January 25 – Book Signing, Sherman Fleek, author of MacArthur and West Point: How the General and the Academy Shaped Each Other, 2 pm

January 27 – “An Evening with David Sesser,” author of The Little Rock Arsenal Crisis: On the Precipice of the American Civil War, 7 – 8 pm

February 17 – Movies at MacArthur, Black Patriots: Buffalo Soldiers, 6:30 – 8 pm

February 22 – Vintage Military Gear Show, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

March 7 – French Arkansas, Dr, Nate Marvin, Francophonie Festival, 2 pm

March 12 - Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency, Dr. Terrence G. Peterson, 6 – 7:30 pm

March 17 – Movies at MacArthur, The Donut Dollies: 627 Women Who Also Served in Vietnam, 6:30 – 8 pm

March 24 – “An Evening with Curt Fields as General Ulysses S. Grant,” 7 – 9 pm

March 25 – “An Evening with Curt Fields as President Grant,” 7 – 9 pm

April 12 – “An Afternoon with Katie Hastert,” administrator of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site, 2 pm

April 21 – Movies at MacArthur, Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey, 6:30 – 8 pm

May 1 – 16th Annual “History on the Run” 5K Race, 7 pm

May 7 – Exhibit Opening, Manufacturing Victory in Arkansas: World War II Ordnance Plants

May 9 – “On the Road with Mark Christ – War in the Territory,” 7 am – 7 pm

May 19 – Movies at MacArthur, The Day the 60s Died, 6:30 – 8 pm

June – July – Summer Day Camp Program Off-site and Field Trips

June 5 – Professional Development Workshop, Women in the Military

June 6 – Congressman French Hill’s “Send-Off for the Service Academy Cadets” Reception,

June 14 – Concert, “Stars and Stripes Celebration for Flag Day” with Little Rock Winds, 7 pm

June 16 – Movies at MacArthur, The Forgotten War, 6:30 – 8 pm

June 25 – Korean War Remembrance Ceremony, 10 am – 1 pm

July 4 – America 250 Celebration at the Clinton Presidential Library, 10 am – 3 pm

July 28 – “An Evening with Jeff Kollath,” director of the Sultana Museum, 7 pm

July 21 – Movies at MacArthur, Lincoln@Gettysburg, 6:30 – 8 pm

August 18 – Movies at MacArthur, Ghost Army, 6:30 – 8 pm

August 20 – Exhibit Opening, Fiction and Fantasy: Escaping the Rigors of World War II Through Paperbacks and Pin-Ups

September – “On the Road with Mark Christ” bus tour of AR Civil War sites, 7 am – 7 pm

September 3 – Exhibit Opening, Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield

September 12 – Tinker Fest at the Museum of Discovery, 9 am – 3 pm

September 15 – Movies at MacArthur, Time of Fear, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

October 10 – 13th Annual Vintage Military Vehicle Show, 9 am – 2 pm

October 13 – Aesthetic Club begins new year

October 20 – Movies at MacArthur, Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War, 6:30 – 8 pm

October 23 - 25 – 15th Annual Arkansas Paranormal Expo, 9 am – 5 pm

October 29 – 31st Annual Big Boo!seum Bash Halloween Event, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

November 10 – Exhibit Opening, From Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad

November 17 – Movies at MacArthur, The Christmas Truce of 1914, 6:30 – 8 pm

December 5 – Holiday Concert with Low Brass Ensemble, 106th Army Band, 2 pm

December 20 – Holiday Music at the Arsenal Recital, 2:00 pm