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Tours / Admissions
- Self-Guided - Available Daily
- Adults: $5.00
- Students: $2.50
- Children under 10 are free
- Costumed Tours
- $7.00 per person, with a minimum of 8 persons.
- Discount of $1.00 off with 10 or more.
- Reservations are required for this tour. Call 479-253-9417 to make your reservation today.
Recent Addition to our Art Collection
The Historical Museum has an exciting new addition to its growing art collection. Long-time friend and member of the Eureka Springs Historical Museum, Lucilla Garrett recently donated a portrait of the late artist, Miriam McKinnie, painted by Ken Addington. Both the artist and the subject, one past and one present, are well-known and widely collected.
Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1906, Miriam McKinnie was a painter, muralist and lithographer who studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art and the Kansas City Art Institute. She made murals and oil paintings of Midwest scenery for Illinois post offices for the Works Progress Administration and was one of the few women artists involved with the Federal Art Project (FAP).
She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kansas City Art Institute and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. McKinnie received many prestigious awards and was a member of the National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors, NYC, the St. Louis Art Guild, American Federation of Arts and the American Artists Congress, NYC. In the 1930’s she was a member of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony in Southeast Missouri.
McKinnie lived and worked in Illinois, Missouri, and later in Arkansas and passed away in Berryville, Arkansas in 1987.
Ken Addington attended the Memphis Academy of Art, The University of Southern Mississippi, and at the Cape School of Art, Provincetown, MA where he studied under Henry Hensche. In 2005 he was awarded a Fellowship Grant by the Arkansas Arts Council. His works are included in over 70 private collections throughout the United States.
Works by other past and present Eureka Springs artists may be seen in the 2nd Floor Gallery at the Historical Museum.
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