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International Migratory Bird Day: Learn Your Birds
Saturday, May 10, 2025
/ 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
If you're new to birdwatching or curious about the wildlife of the Little Rock metro, let Plantation Agriculture Museum staff help you learn about some of the most common birds of our area and how to…
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International Museum Day: Stuffed Animal Sleepover Dropoff
Saturday, May 17, 2025
/ 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
What goes on in a museum after all the visitors go home? Plantation Agriculture Museum is inviting stuffed animals and plushies to come find out for themselves. Museum guests can drop off their toys…
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International Museum Day: Behind the Scenes Tour
Saturday, May 17, 2025
/ 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
In honor of International Museum Day, Plantation Agriculture Museum will host a behind the scenes tour. This tour will allow participants the opportunity to learn more about the collection,…
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International Museum Day: Stuffed Animal Sleepover Pickup
Sunday, May 18, 2025
/ 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Visitors who dropped off their stuffed animals for their sleepover at the museum are welcome to pick them up on Sunday between 1 and 5 p.m. Let your plushie show you all about their adventures through…
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What is a Museum (and Why Did a Grownup Make Me Go to One)?
Sunday, May 18, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Museums are far more than just boring, stodgy places for boring, stodgy grownups and we can prove it! Kids ages 4-8 and their families can join Plantation Agriculture Museum staff to celebrate…
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Cottonseed Sensory Walk
Friday, June 06, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Join park staff at the museum for a walk through some of the buildings on park grounds. Over the course of the walk, we will use our senses to explore the journey of cotton seeds, from plant to plate.…
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Folded Together
Sunday, June 08, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
At the end of World War II, a group of six Japanese American families who had been held in the Rohwer War Relocation Center moved to a plantation in Scott. With those families were several children…
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How's It Growing?
Friday, June 13, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
How is a plant like a person? The answer might surprise you. We have more in common than you might think. Join park staff to learn the ways that all the parts of a plant work together to help it…
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Summer Plant Survey
Saturday, June 14, 2025
/ 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Help Plantation Agriculture Museum to better understand the environment of the park by helping us document the plants that live here. Visitors are invited to join park staff and identify the plants…
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Stick Mule Races
Saturday, June 14, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
All work and no play makes mules just as bored as it would people! Join museum staff to have some fun with the most agreeable mules around as we race wooden stick mules and celebrate these farm MVPs.
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Cottonseed Sensory Walk
Sunday, June 15, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Join park staff at the museum for a walk through some of the buildings on park grounds. Over the course of the walk, we will use our senses to explore the journey of cotton seeds, from plant to plate.…
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Let's Play!: Historic Games
Saturday, June 21, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
For the children of sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the early 20th century, games might have looked quite a bit different than the ones kids play today. Join park staff at the museum to learn…
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Stick Mule Races
Sunday, June 22, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
All work and no play makes mules just as bored as it would people! Join museum staff to have some fun with the most agreeable mules around as we race wooden stick mules and celebrate these farm MVPs.
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Let's Play!: Historic Games
Friday, June 27, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
For the children of sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the early 20th century, games might have looked quite a bit different than the ones kids play today. Join park staff at the museum to learn…
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Plein Air Art
Saturday, June 28, 2025
/ 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, artists across America were inspired to leave their studios and paint nature while in nature. Join park staff at the museum to follow in the path of this tradition…
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Bird Feeder Craft
Sunday, June 29, 2025
/ 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Join park staff to make a simple small bird feeder of your own while learning about the ways that farms and birds have interacted over time and the ways that modern farmers are helping…
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